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...House Election Committee consists of six Democrats arid three Republicans. No surprise, therefore, was the Committee's vote last fortnight. 6-to-3 to unseat Jenks, give his seat to Roy. A surprise followed last week, a House vote rejected the Committee's decision. With 144 Democrats siding with Republicans, the House voted 231-10-130 to send the question back to Committee with unprecedented instructions: to take the individual testimony of 458 voters of the town of Newton, for 30 of the ballots which they cast have been lost, 34 ballots originally tallied for Jenks By actual...
...Congressional representation, the number of pictures a State could send to the show was made proportional to its population, hence arid New Mexico, which has as thriving an art community as exists in the U. S., was limited to five canvases, one sculpture, while Florida, as arid artistically as it is fruitful agriculturally was allowed eight paintings, one sculpture. Beyond that the most startling fact to Manhattanites was that neither John Steuart Curry of Kansas, Thomas Benton of Missouri or Grant Wood of Iowa wa represented...
Sirs: The April 5 copy of TIME which is my private, priceless knothole in the news-arid fence which keeps most of us "furriners" ignorant . . . just came through. Thanks...
Bilbao. With few reserves and only a handful of modern planes to oppose the air squadrons of Italy arid Germany, Bilbao's Basques fought grimly on last week, but fought a losing battle. City defenders were cheered mightily when two companies of Basques with a single anti-tank gun and a barrier of three logs was able to put to flight a group of 18 Italian tanks, but in general the tide was against them. Basque lines were forced back to the third ring of steel and concrete trenches defending Bilbao. A key to the city was pine-covered...
Strange bedfellows last week were the extremely vocal opponents of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. They included: modernist artists, objecting to the arid classicism of the scheme; Republicans and conservatives eager to spike this glorification of the Democratic Party; garden club members, fearing the threat to the cherry trees; utilitarians who favor a memorial to Thomas Jefferson but favor something of public use, specifically an auditorium where such ceremonies as a Presidential inauguration may be held in weather like that of the last...