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Other popular records of the month: Day |n-Day Out (Artie Shaw; Bluebird). Rube Bloom's popular-melody-of-the-month played by a sound dance band...
Fact is, polls of public opinion on Neutrality have strongly supported the well-known Hull-Roosevelt desire to support the Democracies (with arms but not men) against the Dictators. The Bloom bill, passed by the House but now allowed to die in the Senate, was not wholly unacceptable to Messrs. Hull & Roosevelt because its embargo exempted airplanes, motors and the like, which England and France need badly. Under the present Neutrality Law if Hitler marches before September U. S. manufacturers must be stopped from delivering some $175,000,000 worth of airplanes, etc. which" have Been ordered...
...last week Chairman Key Pittman postponed a showdown in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the biggest question this Congress has had before it: The Neutrality law, the rules of behavior for the President of the U. S. should war break out abroad. The House had sent up the Bloom bill putting half a halter on the President, obliging him to embargo U. S. "arms & ammunition" (but not other material such as planes, motors, trucks, oil, cotton) to belligerents (TIME, July 10). Reason Senator Pittman delayed seemed to be that he was not at all sure of being able...
...Neutrality law which Congress fastened upon him two years ago, Mr. Roosevelt this year sought primarily to remove his obligation to declare an embargo on "implements of war" for belligerents. The revised Neutrality act offered in the House last month by New York's prognathous Sol Bloom was drawn with this in view, and all seemed set for its passage...
...Bloom will do exactly as Daddy tells him to," pouted Miss Bankhead a bit tactlessly. "Anyway, we actors shouldn't be punished for what Sol Bloom does...