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...prime political importance was the figure 122,698,190 because upon it the House of Representatives will be reapportioned. Last year Congress voted to hold the House membership at its present level (435) and distribute House seats among the States accordingly (TIME, June 10, 1929). The new apportionment of representatives will first come into effect for the 1932 election when the 73rd Congress is chosen. Under the new law, if Congress fails to vote reapportionment in the next short session, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to compute the changes in State representation on the basis of the new census...
...have just had a satisfactory talk with the President and we are in entire accord on our program. The President has approved my decision to call a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee on Aug. 7 at which time I intend to submit my resignation as Republican National Chairman...
...people have called me from my retirement and I reluctantly return! . . . Gathering strength as I advance, I will save the Nation and restore peace. . . . May the Great Powers accord my Mission sympathetic understanding...
...themselves. How they will attain, this enlightenment remains to be discovered. ... A man who is convicted by the dean's office of cheating and leaves college under the stigma of that hideous word takes on an aspect of moral guilt which his companions ... do not of their own accord inflict. . . . Certainly a man's honor in the world is bitterly lost...
...when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance...