Word: dingley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rules which provided that every Representative must vote, that members present but not voting could be counted for a quorum, that no dilatory or filibustering motion be entertained by the Speaker. Attacked as a "Tsar," he used his rules to rush through the House the McKinley (1890) and the Dingley (1897) tariff bills...
...many of the captious readers you apparently have (and are not alone in this). Do most people read for the pleasure of being critical and not for the absorbing interest of the knowledge gained? From one who admires the magazine's style and learns much. MADALEN DINGLEY LEETCH...
...would veto a corporation stock tax; who raised $547,000 to elect Mr. Hoover in 1928. Mr. Grundy is a worsted maker of Bristol, Pa., and president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Grundy is the man who has gone down to Washington about every tariff bill since the Dingley Bill of 1897. Who knows better than Mr. Grundy why the Pennsylvania delegation in the House caucused unanimously for a special session to deal with farm relief? and tariff...
Died. John Dalzell, 82, for 26 years (1887-1913) Republican member of Congress from Pittsburgh; at Altadena, Calif. Known as "Father of the House", he with Payne, Dingley and Cannon, were the "big four" who shaped legislation...
...five billion dollars which would otherwise have been spent on the country's naval building program. 2) "A protective tariff sufficiently high to cover the difference between the cost of living here and abroad, 12 per cent lower than the Payne-Aldrich rates, 20 per cent below the Dingley rates and with 60 per cent of all importations on the free list." Due to this tariff protection, the value of the farm crop is 30% higher than it was in 1921; our national wealth is greater than that of Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy combined. 3) A restrictive...