Word: sponsoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...estimate the average brain weight within and make illuminating deductions in a report to the Vice President- without mentioning any names-as to the "inner activities of Congress." Dr. Copeland has long fattened his income by writing on popular medical subjects for the newspapers and so was an ideal sponsor for the ingenious new plan. Dr. MacDonald, who had already measured scores of Representatives and Senators in the 62nd Congress, explained that he would like to examine legislators of other countries too, for comparison, "but our country is first and should continue to lead in this comparative anthropology of legislative...
Commander Locker -Lampson (Tory sponsor of the motion) : "The time has come to stop making freeborn Englishmen the helots of a slave State...
...like Liberty, is made to stand sponsor for a variety of things. License is their little sister, without whom they would be sad indeed, yet whose excesses are frequently embarrassing...
...approved it, and lately Mr. Dawes has been sitting in at the conferences of the supporters of the Haugen bill. In fact the bill, originally called the Haugen bill from the chairman of the House Committee of Agriculture, and then the McNary-Haugen bill, adding the name of the sponsor of the bill in the Senate, was last week dubbed by its opponents the Dawes-McNary-Haugen bill...
...last week a bill appeared in the House to authorize a $30,000 memorial to the 93rd Division (Colored) in France. Representative Hamilton Fish of New York (onetime officer of the 93rd Division) was its sponsor. Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland a member of the Battle Monuments Commission urged that it was unwise for the House to begin designating specific monuments. The Democrats in general joined him (a Republican) in opposition, protesting that they were not raising a race question, but supporting a principle. But the House, in acting mood, could not be deterred, passed the bill...