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...69th Congress entered its last session like a mild, limping lamb and exited like a wild, snorting lion. In December, many a critic predicted a do-nothing session. "It will be lucky," said some, "if it passes the appropriation bills." As March 4 approached, it appeared that this session, unfamed, unsung, had accomplished more than any short session of Congress since Woodrow Wilson's first administration and seldom missed an opportunity to defy, vex, prod the Calvin Coolidge Adminstration. Important doings...
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There he stands, arms folded. Suddenly the Deputies remember that he stands, after all, for Poland. His lion courage, his dramatic posturing, even his dynamic fickleness, are their own. In a flash the Deputies have changed their minds about the Budget Bill. A few moments, and it is voted through in its original form amid a dazed, hypnotic silence...
...quaint historic significance. They were rebuffing the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. . . . Lieutenant General Sir William Pulteney, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., K.C.M. B., B.D.S.O., receives $1,000 per annum ($4,860) for acting as the Black Rod, and carrying it: a massive staff of ebony surmounted by a golden lion. Last week he was sent, as usual, to summon the Speaker and the Commons before the Lords. As he approached the Chamber of the Commons, unsmiling attendants closed the door, as usual, in his face. Thus was affirmed the right of Honorable Members to free speech, even at the displeasure...
Where Anthony Comstock was a berserk lion of purity, Mr. Sumner dislikes being thought of as a reformer. His smile and forbearance are of the efficient Y. M. C. A. type. With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer. In the performance of his duties, he avoids "scenes" by working hand in glove with Manhattan's district attorney, at present, one Joab H. Banton, whose definition of art is "the beautiful as opposed to the realistic," who regards certain plays of Sophocles as indecent, who says, "My God, if Christianity has not advanced us beyond the stage...