Word: framing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Congress, as everyone knows, is government by committee. By controlling the political composition of these off-stage organizations, the party in power controls the character of legislation they frame for enactment. Most potent of Senate committees is the Committee on Finance, dealing with taxation. To maintain control over it is a practical necessity for any Senate majority. Last week the rising tide of Western insurgency reached a high-water mark when the Regular Republicans virtually lost control of the Committee on Finance by the election of Senator Robert Marion La Follette, well-dressed young Wisconsin Insurgent, to that sub-Senate...
...lineups in the other matches are as follows: team B--R. P. Honigsberg '31, C. H. Kawakami '30, D. M. Frame '32, E. M. Shelton '30, and E. P. Gunn '30. University team C--F. O. Canfield '32, Edward Orlandini '32, P. G. Livermore '32, G. R. Clark '32, and G. T. Emmet '31; Freshman team D--J. M. Barnaby II '33, E. E. Mitchell '33, F. L. Young '33, T. B. Eastland '33, and J. B. Walker...
This incident and the fire in Claverly Hall a few weeks ago bring the question of adequate fire protection for University property into sharper relief. Many of the students in the Gold Coast dormitory slumbered peacefully through the disturbance. The flames at Soldiers Field Tuesday had completely demolished the frame of the building and with it all hopes of saving it long before reenforcements arriving from nearby districts had pushed their way through the huge gathering assembled from all over Cambridge. Had the fire on Mt. Auburn Street had such a start, the outcome would have been a holocaust...
...they had heard in the hall, the crowd eddied out upon Boston Common where was displayed a Coast Guard recruiting sign, guarded by Chief Water Tender George Briggs. "Dirty murderers!" cried the crowd as it became a mob, knocked down Briggs. tore his recruiting poster to shreds, kicked its frame to bits about the Common. Briggs fled in a taxi...
Dealer Phillips hurried to the express office, found in the case a big gilt frame with ragged edges of canvas where the painting had been torn out. There was no clue as to the time or place of the theft. Dealer Phillips said he believed it the work of a "novice or an expert in a great hurry...