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...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXXVI OCTOBER, 1937 Number 4 PARTY GOVERNMENT IN A SESSION OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FLOYD M. RIDDICK BY AND LARGE the activities of the last session of Congress, which convened on January...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 THE HOUSE VERSUS THE SENATE IN THE THIRD SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FLOYD M. RIDDICK IF THE FATHERS of the Constitution who proposed and fought for the two-house legislature of the Federal Government could have...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXXIX JANUARY, 1940 Number 1 POLITICAL PROCEDURE IN THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FLOYD M. RIDDICK THE FIRST session of the Seventy-sixth Congress, which con­ vened on January 3...

...Alan K. Manchester The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener . By Sessions Roger . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1950 . Pp. 127 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 448 The South Atlantic Quarterly two of the best are Vision...

...Michele White Contemporary wedding cultures, in Western heterosexual forms, tend to perpetuate normative femininity, women's visual accessibility, and women's position as clean and mannered bodies. Trash the Dress (TTD) postwedding sessions repeat and trouble these cultural conceptions...

...Gene A. Sessions Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Myth, Mormonism, and Murder In the South Gene A. Sessions On a clear Sunday morning in August of 1884, three young Mormon missionary elders and several local members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints assembled...

... comprising semistructured interviews, focus group discussions, and participant observations from forty Uber and Bolt trips. Other primary data sources include driver forums, attending driver training sessions and listening to transport radio programs. This article identifies temporal and spatial dynamics...

... of a promising model, as the speaker later commented that the event was the most peaceful question-and-answer session he had ever experienced. By a careful consideration of the specific conditions of the conversation, organizers of the talk orchestrated a context in which potentially disruptive interlocutors...

... by that body. This article, therefore, will briefly analyze certain actions taken by the House during the second and third sessions of the Seventy-fifth Congress which will, in part, disclose certain aspects of House procedure and its relation to legislation. The issues pointed out here are chosen to urge...

... a few lead­ ers run Congress. If the people fail in their duty by neglecting to watch and to assert their desires to Congress one can already, with a knowledge of the past Congress, predict what the enactments of the Seventy-fifth Con­ gress will be. The recent session of the second Roosevelt House...

... of the papers issued in Nashville and elsewhere during the conven­ tion s sessions, of text-books of the period, which for the most part devote anywhere from three or four lines to a page or so to the subject, and of a few other miscellaneous sources, among which is that of private correspondence, which...

... that the Senate can sit as a court during its regular session. In Tennessee the constitution requires that the legislature must adjourn and then try cases. Vir­ ginia and West Virginia require the Senate to sit during a recess while in Florida the constitution stipulates that The Senate may adjourn to a fixed...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 THE ADMINISTRATION, LOBBYISTS, AND CONGRESS FLOYD M. RIDDICK THE ADMINISTRATION S control over the House and Sen­ ate in the determination of legislation during the First Session of the Seventy-seventh Congress far exceeded...

... in general what the people demand from those whom they choose to make their laws. Annual sessions of the legislature are still found in Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and South Carolina. All the other states have biennial sessions, except Ala­ bama and Mississippi, which show...

... session of the Indian National Congress, pointed out the many blessings of British rule and mentioned internal peace and security, the rule of law, and the spread of Western education as the most important.5 Four years later, in 1890, Sir Phirozeshah Mehta (1845-1915), in the course of his presidential...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 WHAT CONGRESS NEEDS FLOYD M. RIDDICK HE SECOND SESSION of the Seventy-seventh Congress was adjourned on December 16, 1942; its activities, though per­ formed more hurriedly than usual, were carried out under a strain without...

... of the session. Most feared among possible eventualities was the threat of redistricting the state for the election of members of Congress, the State Senate, and the judiciary. Let that occur, ran the alarm, and Republicans might for years be a helpless minority in the business of the state. True, Republicans...

... when real battles are staged on the floor during this next session? Will the legis­ lative program be directed by the President independent of the will of the Democratic members in the House, or will Con­ gress fight the President and insist on doing the legislating without his advice ? These questions...

... the proprietary period. So Governor Johnston called the session of 1746 to meet in June at Newbern. Two new counties were created, Granville and Johnston, and a bill was introduced to make Newbern the permanent meeting place for the Assembly, but it was rejected. The Governor thereupon prorogued the Assembly...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 CONGRESSIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AFFECTING LEGISLATION FLOYD M. RIDDICK THE FIRST SESSION of the Seventy-eighth Congress was convened on January 6, 1943, and ran through December 21, 1943. During that period the House and Senate...