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...Representative Lister Hill, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Secretary of War Woodring last week dispatched a chit. He recommended repeal of a law passed in 1901 which forbids the sale of beer, wine or intoxicating beverages on Army premises. This, Mr. Woodring explained, was not a Wet-Dry issue, but a question of discrimination against the Army. Sailors and marines can now buy beer at their canteens ashore. Said he: "The repeal of this law restores the Army to parity with the Navy...
Three More Blows. If the President's aim was to get conservative oldsters off the Court, the Van Devanter retirement was a partial success, but there were reasons for believing that his chit from the Justice gave a sour taste to his breakfast. Every President in his second term finds it difficult to control Congress, and by forcing Congress to pass his Court bill, he could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown...
President Roosevelt last week sent a chit to remind his Congress that one of his New Deal projects would be ready to begin functioning before the end of this year. That was the $45,000,000 Bonneville dam on the Columbia River 30 miles above Portland. He sent a report saying: "Incidental to its major purpose of improving navigation, the project will produce electric energy which will be used in the operation of the dam, locks and fish-ways, and surplus power will be available for distribution to the public." He urgently advised Congress to pass a bill providing...
...luncheon my official host took me to the house dining room. There were small tables and waitresses and not very good food. The houses all had the same menus on the same days and any member of a house could eat in any other house on signing an "interhouse" chit. In fact the whole system resembled an amalgamation of clubs rather than the strictly individualistic Cambridge colleges, which it might superficially seem to imitate. Indeed it was several times emphasized by Harvard dons in speeches during the celebrations that adaptation to modern ideas rather than imitation of the mediaevalism...
While the refueling went on, the President had three hours of fishless fishing in a whale boat. Then the swift voyage southward was resumed and the newshawks riding in the Indianapolis' wake racked their brains and filled the ether with radioed chit-chat about the President's initiation by Neptune's Court when crossing the Equator...