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...Superintendent William Henry Holmes of Mount Vernon, N. Y., candidate for the presidency of potent National Education Association. To choose a new president, to spend five days in exciting talk about their profession, 15,000 U. S. teachers and school officials journeyed to Portland, Ore., for NEA's 74th annual convention...
...second session of the 74th Congress will be remembered chiefly because it passed the $1,936,213,950 Bonus and appropriated $7,240,216,913 besides AAA, topping the $9,579,756,510 it voted in its first session...
...youthful tenor. It was 11:55 Prn. when the Senate finally gave in. But the House, though too tired for adjournment horseplay, could not stop talking. Not until 12:39 a. m. did Speaker Bankhead's gavel ring to a halt the listless end of the 74th Congress' listless second & last session...
...Congress' custom to make a farce of the term "deliberative assembly" in its last week, jam through more bills than it has passed in any previous week. But in the political year 1936 the 74th Congress, tardy because of its recess for the Republican convention and straining to be through in time for the Democratic convention, outdid most of its predecessors. Important bills enacted last week...
...home in Gloucester, Mass, early one morning last week, after long illness, died A. Piatt Andrew, onetime (1910-12) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, since 1921 a U. S. Representative. He was the tenth Representative, the 14th member of the 74th Congress to die. When the House met at noon that day, it would have been customary to adjourn at once in tribute to the dead colleague. But Congress was straining for adjournment by week's end, and the conventional amenities were postponed for nearly three hours by routine business. Then Massachusetts' Treadway arose to present a resolution...