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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Debentures In. Trouble began when the Senate voted 47 to 44 to retain in the bill the Export Debenture Plan, ten objections by President Hoover notwithstanding (TIME, April 29). The line of cleavage on this vote proved two things; 1) The Hoover 1928 victory in four Southern States carried no weight in the Senate where Democrats (with two exceptions) joined solidly against him and for the Debenture Plan; 2) The nine-year coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans still held a whip hand over major legislation, despite the G. O. P.'s paper majority of 17 votes...
After four months of mulling, the Ways & Means Committee last week delivered to the House a ponderous Bill to revise the tariff for the benefit of the farmer?and others. Farmers, through their Congressional representatives, surveyed the measure suspiciously, expressed strong disappointment, began to kick dirt. Great was their surprise when other interests affected by this 85,000-word measure were, for different reasons, no more pleased than they...
Last week, some 50 years after the Reconstruction Period, began three new chapters in the history of Negroes at U. S. training schools. Dignified, grey-wooled Oscar de Priest, the Negro who has succeeded the late Martin Barnaby Madden as Representative of Chicago's black-belt ist District, sent up the names of two young Negroes for admission to Annapolis. A third he nominated for West Point. All were boys from his District. All are high-school graduates with reputations for studious application, fine character. Laurence A. Whitfield and Claude Henson Burns are the Annapolis nominees. Alonzo Souleigh Parham...
When the dictator did finish, King Alfonso uttered a few lisping Castilian syllables and Seville's Ibero-American Exposition formally began...
...Crosby is not specially fond of little boys, nor has he one of his own. Skippy is mostly himself as he remembers himself, and as he still is. Born in Brooklyn 36 years ago, he started out to do serious painting. He cartooned at the front during the War, began Skippy in Life...