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When politicians turn for a moment from investigations and log-rolling activities to less congenial employment the result is usually highly interesting. And when the discussion wanders to the field of literature it is as frequently highly entertaining. The debate on the Rabenold "Clean Book" bill at Albany has proved...
The squad foregathers tonight to begin the preparation for the debate, the wording of which will be: "Resolved: That the provisions of the Platt Amendment for Cuba should be now applied to the Philippine Islands."
Hudson Maxim, famed inventor: "At the WOR broadcasting station in Newark, I 'began a 3,000-word address in which reference was made to certain ramifications of the 18th Amendment. When I had finished talking (after 15 minutes), it was explained to me that the only part of my...
4) Rejection by more than one-fourth of the states, or the passage of more than six years without ratification by three-fourths of the states, constitutes a final rejection of an amendment. (New.)
¶In answer to 26 motions to revoke or modify the Government fiscal reforms, Chancellor Wilhelm Marx again told the Reichstag that it would be dissolved if it interfered with the Government's power now being exercised under a constitutional amendment. Speaking in the low, slow, even tones for...