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...Norton got her nickname because she is called Aunt Mary by her niece, Marion McDonagh, who works under her as the Labor Committee's clerk. Last week Aunt Mary's big afternoon happened also to be Niece Marion's 28th birthday. Said she: "I just can't do any more work today." Although Mary Norton was equally elated she was nevertheless very much aware that her chef-d'oeuvre in Congress, the Wages-&-Hours Bill, was still far from enactment. Even if the House passes it, which it may well do this month, the Bill...
When Vice President Garner, in his capacity as President of the Senate, is in a mood for quick action, his methods are direct. Last week, as the clerk read each section of the Senate Finance Committee's 371-page, $5,000,000,000 1938 Tax Bill, Mr. Garner glanced down at Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, whacked his gavel on the desk, grunted: "Without objection, amendments agreed to. . . ." Five hours after the bill came up for debate Mr. Garner turned the chair over to Indiana's Minton, with a cheery comment: "We've passed 224 pages...
Each spring since 1918, when Benzie County (Mich.) Clerk Newt Ely found the creek near his house green with smelt struggling upstream from Lake Michigan to spawn, fishermen have flocked to brooks around the Great Lakes, have taken in 8,000,000 pounds of smelt annually. Softspoken, bespectacled William J. Duchaine, managing editor of the Escanaba Daily Press and the town's unofficial pressagent, sniffed a chance for the town to recoup its losses in local mining and lumbering declines. Having initiated Escanabans to profit-making outdoor fun with logrolling contests, deer hunters' powwows, he sold the town...
...Rockefeller fellow, joined the Institute at Princeton in 1936. In Cambridge he helped Physicist Max Born, another German exile (now at Edinburgh), in the formulation of a field theory which bridges modern Quantum Mechanics and the 19th-Century electro-magnetic wave equations of Scotland's brilliant James Clerk Maxwell (TIME, Sept...
...going to be killed-all,'' wailed Mr. Matthews' hotel chambermaid, after living through the first twelve air raids in barely 24 hours. A Barcelona drugstore clerk from whom Mr. Matthews was buying medicine for a headache, sighed: "Oh, for a plane to fly to France! I don't want...