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...exellent one," that he agreed with it for the most part. What will Congress do about it? There will be no time for action this short session; so Colonel Thompson's researches of the summer of 1926 will probably rest peacefully until the opening of the 70th Congress in December, 1927-perhaps longer...
Please correct your error regarding Smith Wildman Brookhart in TIME, Dec. 13 You say "The wild bull of the Senate will be back again in the 70th session, having made peace with the Iowa Republicans." A state paper expressed the facts more correctly as follows : "Smith Wildman Brookhart is home again in the Republican fold-it was done by moving the fold over to him." ERNEST WYKES...
...Illinois should appoint Senator-elect Smith to fill out the late Senator McKinley's term in the 69th Congress, the fight to oust him would create such a broil that important legislation would be sidetracked and President Coolidge would probably be forced to call a special session of the 70th Congress. Hence, regular Republicans are urging Colonel Smith not to accept the appointment and Governor Small not to offer...
Louis Marshall, Manhattan lawyer: "My 70th birthday, last week, was seized upon by my admirers as an occasion to call me 'great humanitarian,' 'foremost Jew,' 'great constitutional lawyer.' Julius Rosenwald revived my late wife's term of 'the E. J.-Enthusiastic Jew.' Judge Cardoza said I was 'a great civic institution.' My law partner, Samuel Untermyer, called me 'the most prodigious worker I have ever known.' Besides members of my own race, such men as Elihu Root, James W. Wadsworth Jr., Justice Harlan F. Stone, George W. Wickersham and James Weldon Johnson wrote tributes which were published in the current...
...tide has swung around and President Coolidge, if he were inclined to squabble with the Senate, might have reason to make such a remark concerning the Republican insurgents. They hold the balance of power today in the 69th Senate; during the next two years in the 70th session their power will be decisive, the votes of any two of them being sufficient to give either the Democrats or Republicans control of the Senate. Calvin Coolidge, however, is no Woodrow Wilson. Last week he set about to placate the insurgents, cajole them, humor them. To a breakfast of buckwheat cakes...