Word: staticity
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...United Static. The U. S. was invented before its roads and railroads. In the 18th century it made some sense to allow 13 months between the time of a Congressman's election and the day he had to reach the Capital and take his seat. But it makes small sense today, and the four months allowed the President and Vice President, from Election Day to March 4, are similarly unnecessary...
...Senator Norris of Nebraska began urging a constitutional amendment to let the peoples' voice be heard afresh, in Congress and in the White House, without anachronistic delay. Thrice the Senate approved the Norris Resolution. Thrice the House remained static. Last fortnight the proposal to exterminate "lame duck" legislators and executives passed the Senate again, 67 to 6, and was sent to the House. It provided that Congress shall meet every year on January 4; that Congress shall sit every other year until through its business and at least until April 30 in the years between; that Presidential inaugurals shall...
Last week, the House Committee on elections voted to report the resolution promptly and favorably this time instead of pouching it. But the House was still static. Republican Floor Leader Tilson said: "There is little interest in the House." Speaker Longworth said he could observe "very little sentiment" for the Amendment. Chairman White of the Committee on Elections said the Amendment would surely pass the House if ever it could reach a vote...
...card parties, bazaars, etc., pockmark the old stipend. A politician has to be charitable and charity tugs not at the heart, but the purse. ". . . Our extravagances are expressed before the galleries. No sightseers observe the Cabinet in argument, excitement or perplexity. You cannot tune in on the White House static. Before a Presidential Proclamation, the controversial clashes have been hushed in the sanctity of the Cabinet Chambers. The Ancient Order of Sphinxes or a Convention of Lynnhaven Oysters is no more efficiently safeguarded from eager ears than the Cabinet. . . . "The worst that can be honestly said of Congress, is that...
...hour of their release, opportunity is now extended even to the tardy and the unlucky. On Christmas Eve Professor Copeland will step to the microphone and speak to an audience which is bound only by interplanetary space. It may not be true that the coughing of the aerial static will be silent as the voice of the host at Hollis 15 travels through the night. Absurd it certainly is to place credence in the rumor that a radio firm has named its newest loudspeaking horn the Cornucopia. Irrelevancies aside, Professor Copeland, whether in Sever 11, the Union, or vibrating...