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When the shooting was all over, members rejoiced in the thought that no matter what home-folks think, this autumn there is no election. Some wandered up to the press-galleries to sit in a last pitch-game with newshawks and cameramen, chipping in to send a boy across the plaza for a bottle. Some went directly to Union Station, where wives awaited them on made-up trains. And some took time to total up the spirited 76th's box score: found that this Congress had defied Franklin Roosevelt's will twelve times, knuckled under only four times...
...this was not the full measure of grey-mustached Mr. Knudsen's woe. Well he knew that the present strikes were only dress rehearsals, a sort of summer barn theatre tryout of C. I. O.'s big autumn push, when the great mass of production workers (not now affected) will make sweeping new contract demands...
...CIOrganizing 2,000,000 U. S. construction workers. This maneuver struck directly at the biggest and long-dominant craft blocs in the A. F. of L., marked Lewis' first major invasion of A. F. of L. territory, seemed timed to coincide with the Administration's scheduled autumn anti-trust drive into the building industry, which will incidentally thrust deeply into union racketeering...
...making wealthy Tories appear less menacing than the authors intended. Also weakening the picture is the fact that many a rich M.P. opposes his cousins, follows some anti-Chamberlain policies that the authors of the book advocate. Persuasive rather than strident, the book is obviously aimed for this autumn's probable General Election, attacks pro-Nazis and the Munich settlement, adopts a stern tone only when discussing outright Fascists and Conservatives and the Tory members of the Anglo-German Fellowship. British readers, who knew the British ruling class was rich, small and solid but scarcely expected to find that...
Starting as a sharp crack with the Court fight in 1937, the Democratic split had widened after Mr. Roosevelt's abortive Purge of 1938. The elections last autumn drove in fresh wedges so alarming to Mr. Roosevelt that he attempted no legislative program of his own in the 76th Congress except nonpartisan National Defense. Scornfully he challenged Congress to get a legislative program of its own. Slowly awkwardly but with a determination which mounted as Mr. Roosevelt opposed and sneered at it, the Congress did formulate and pursue such a program...