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Because it was revenue legislation the beer bill was given right-of-way in the House this week. Speaker Garner promised both sides ample time to debate it, ample opportunity to amend it. Its passage by the House was confidently predicted?but not by any such vote (272) as Repeal got the first clay of the session. The predominantly Dry Senate's action remained highly uncertain. And at the end of the legislative lane appeared to loom a veto by President Hoover who. unlike the Ways & Means majority, is known to feel that Beer before Repeal is Nullification...
...step backward. . . . The preamble asserts that the time is ripe for disarmament but all the subsequent contents of the resolution represent an utter negation of that assertion." Suiting action to his words the Soviet Delegate moved to amend the resolution by inserting into it the chief, concrete features of the Hoover Plan. Three votes were taken and on all three the U. S. Ambassador voted against insertion of the Hoover Plan. At this juncture a huge "silver" (aluminum) seaplane, roaring up from Rome, appeared over Geneva. The Delegates, as they voted down the Russian proposals, could...
Upshot of the meeting was the adoption of a set of resolutions calling upon the Federal Government to: 1) amend the Reconstruction Finance Corp. act so as to allow indigent municipalities to borrow from that agency; 2) authorize a five-billion-dollar bond issue for public works (William Randolph Hearst's "Prosperity Loan"). For two years the Washington Government has insisted that local governments carry their own distress problems. Last week's meeting was local government's first organized appeal from this policy...
...Passed without a record vote a bill introduced by Alabama's Steagall to amend the Banking and Federal Reserve Acts to provide a guaranty for bank depositors; sent it to the Senate...
...Amend the House theatre admissions tax to provide an exemption...