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Record. The first session of the 72nd Congress had been full of political bluster and bustle but behind the noise was plenty of substantial accomplishment. President Hoover got all he could reasonably expect from a divided Congress on the brink of a national election. His program for bolstering the sagging body economic of the nation was enacted. A variety of measures obnoxious to him were left to die. Between them, the President and the Congress made the following record...
...Cleveland and Niagara Falls: "FIND SEMENOFF. . . ." But Nikolai Semenoff had already spent a night at the Temperance House in Niagara Falls, walked out next morning, doffed hat, top coat and stick, laid them neatly on the shore. Helpless witnesses saw him plunge off Table Rock, go over the brink in his last and bravest pirouette...
...important U. S. cities, met in Detroit last week to beg the Federal Government for a helping hand to carry the burden of urban unemployment and public distress. The meeting was called by aggressive, hard-bitten Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit, which has spent itself almost to the brink of bankruptcy supporting its needy.* On hand among the 20 Democrats, four Republicans, one Socialist and one Farmer-Laborite, were New York's Walker, Boston's Curley, Richmond's Bright, Syracuse's Marvin, New Orleans' Walmsley, Miami's Gautier, Milwaukee's Hoan, Cleveland's Miller, Denver's Begole, Minneapolis' Anderson, Akron...
...What he expected soon happened. The potent motor, radio, cosmetics, and candy lobbies whose products had been singled out for taxation sent up a wounded howl. The proposed tax on bank checks trod on the toes of the American Bankers Association. Publishers, many of them on failure's brink, protested the postal rates...
...gift. That Ruthenians are starving their Deputies in the Czechoslovak Chamber have asserted again & again. The last time this blighted province was up for debate, Ruthenian Deputy Kurtyak shouted, "You smug people here in Prague don't realize that 15,000 Ruthenian children are on the brink of starving to death. For God's sake help our children if you wont help...