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...spoke venerable William Heard Kilpatrick, just retired by Columbia's Teachers College and now at Northwestern University, at the 75th or "diamond" convention of the National Education Association in Detroit last week. As 1,300 delegates and 12,000 vacationing NEA members crowded warmly into the Masonic Temple to begin four days of talk about their profession, no one was more on teachers' minds than the President of the U. S. He had just signed a new NEA charter which democratized the board of directors by dropping from it the Association's 22 past presidents, mostly school...
...predecessors having achieved Recovery and the New Deal being safely settled in power for another four years, the 75th Congress, elected last November, was slated to be a Reform Congress. It met Jan. 5 with full steam and a clear track. By last week the Senate had averaged less than three hours' work per day, meeting on only about half the available days. The House had done little better. Between them they had passed just two major measures-the Neutrality and Guffey Coal Acts-and both were revampings of earlier statutes. Even in the matter of routine appropriations they...
Economy? Would history be paved with good intentions of the 75th Congress? Congressmen felt twinges of fiscal uncertainty in their joints. They could see that the President's example was not so strong as his precept. Although urging them to economize and promising "to use every means at my command to eliminate this deficit during the coming fiscal year," he did not reduce his own net aggregate of Budget requests. The expected $418,000,000 deficit of fiscal 1938 was accounted for by a reduction of $387,000,000 in revenues and an increase...
...Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, looking very solemn and very fit in spite of having celebrated his 75th birthday the day before, cast hardly a glance at his jam-packed courtroom as he took his seat. With a rustling of robes his Associates joined him. The Chief Justice, turning his head, gave a brief nod toward the right extremity of the bench. Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts, end man of the Court, took up a manuscript and began to read...
This week when the 75th Congress of the U. S. assembled, those who looked down from the galleries could find few gaps in the ranks of Senate oldtimers. Of eleven Senators who at the close of the last session could claim the distinction of having occupied their seats before the U. S. entered the World War, most were again to be in their accustomed places. One, however, was certain to be conspicuous in absence. Neither Death nor defeat at the polls had accounted for him. Senator George William Norris of Nebraska was ''unavoidably detained...