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...House rejected Burt Wheeler's Senate bill, authorizing the President to set clocks forward or back one hour or two hours, at his discretion. The House bill, which Senate conferees are expected to adopt this week, provides that all clocks will be set ahead uniformly one hour...
Maxwell Struthers Burt of Philadelphia and Wyoming knows how to write an almost convincing simulacrum of a first-class novel. Self-assured but not glib, he respects and admires the English language, has a plentiful supply of ideas, puts enough complexity and contradiction into his characters to keep them from being stereotypes. It is like the creation of a culture pearl: an irritant is carefully introduced into the oyster, which then obediently builds up a globe of pearly substance, as smooth and gleaming to the casual glance as the real thing...
Last week, while Burt Wheeler quoted the Navy to the effect that there was no armament available for merchant ships, Admiral Blandy was quietly preparing to supply them. The equipment available ranges from 5-in. guns down through 1.1-in. pom-poms and 20-mm. Oerlikons. Fitting out ships a few at a time, the Navy expects to have over 1,000 armed within four or five months. Armament will depend on the size of the ship: the largest will mount 5-in. guns fore & aft, two 20-mm. guns amidships, 1.1s topside wherever possible; the smallest will mount...
...revolution in this this country if damnable the war. . . ." Administration gets us into To which TIME'S curt, pert editor adds: "Not in Atlanta, Ga., where Senator Wheeler was refused the use of the city auditorium." Let TIME think again. This is revolution. Whatever one thinks of Burt Wheeler's views, it is Nazi revolution when our Constitution is ignored and a U.S. Senator-or any other American, for that matter-is denied his right to express his opinion on public policy in a public auditorium...
...newsman in the Senate gallery sent these words down to Burt Wheeler. Cried Senator Wheeler: ". . . There is not a drop of blood flowing through my veins except English, and my people came here from England something like 300 years ago. . . . Think of the gall . . . the insolence . . . . A man such as Wedgwood should be run out of the United States...