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...Barkley or Republican Sena tor McNary for opponents. He likes being where he can spend an evening watching a wrestling match or sitting in on a game of bridge or poker, which he plays expertly, with considerable bluffing. He likes to be where his hosts of bigwig friends are com ing & going, where cronies like Joseph Tumulty, Marvin Mclntyre and Steve Early can drop in on him and Mrs. Harri son at their pleasant home on Cathedral Avenue. But Pat Harrison currently yearns to get away from all this as soon as he can because he is facing his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxmaster | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...will be given this summer to workers "with five or more years of continuous service." Roared President Michael F. Tighe of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers: "I think it is a fake thrown out by the corporation for the purpose of keeping the employes interested in com-pany unions." Using the added costs of vacation pay as an excuse, U. S. Steel's biggest subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois, promptly opened its books for third quarter business with prices boosted as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wages & Workers | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Largely as a result of Mr. May's criticism, bolstered this week by RFChairman Jesse Jones in a letter to the Finance Com mittee. Administration insistence on the tax bill as written wilted. From the White House came word that the Finance Com mittee could revive the bill as it pleased provided necessary revenue would still be forthcoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: May Over Morgenthau | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

When Sunya Pratt was 14, her father gave her a number of books, told her to choose her-own religion. She chose Buddhism with "its philosophy of com passion, calmness, emancipation from ignorance and prejudice, its justice." Later she made Buddhists of her children and her husband, J. Wesley Pratt, a traveling salesman. ("It gives them a better understanding, free of all superstition.") But when the children grow up, Mrs. Pratt, now 38, intends to leave them and her home. She will have her head shaved, put on the. yellow robe of a mendicant nun, divest herself of all possessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Teiun | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...jeweler's eyepiece and tell what kind of atoms are dancing in a star trillions of miles away. Thus has astronomy advanced since Galileo first glimpsed the four big satellites of Jupiter and wondered what they were. The mod ern art of splitting up light into its com ponent colors, which disclose the chemical nature of the source, depends on a little thing called the diffraction grating. This is a plate of glass or metal with 15,000 to 30.000 parallel lines accurately ruled across every inch of it. Each line reflects the light at a slightly different angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Academicians | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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