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...Reserve Act when it passed the House 19 years ago), that he still considers it very much his own legislative child. The Glass-Steagall bill was born at the White House. Behind it loomed the shadowy outline of a printing press whirling off millions, perhaps billions, of dollars of crisp new paper money...
Charles Robert Crisp of Georgia, son of the late great Charles Frederick Crisp, Speaker of the House. With the reputation of being the Democratic "brains" on the committee, Congressman Crisp last week took the House floor, delivered a stirring warning to his colleagues and to the country on the tax burdens ahead: "I have burned every bridge behind me. No matter what the personal political consequences may be, I'm going to advocate levying sufficient taxes to balance the budget. It means nothing to the United States whether I remain in Congress or not but it means much...
...announcing the death of his colleague, Georgia's Congressman Crisp observed with some alarm: "It is my honest belief that he was a victim of the strain under which we have been trying to work these last several weeks. . . . Let us reflect and relax some and not kill ourselves...
...House Georgia's Crisp proposed annihilating the Farm Board. Alabama's Almon would grant veterans 100% loans on their bonus certificates. Massachusetts' Tinkham wanted a Washington Hall of Fame and New York's Celler, a Negro industrial commission. Georgia's Vinson would build the Navy up by $760,000,000 to full treaty limits. New York's Bacon proposed bus and truck regulation by the I. C. C. Wet bills, including a constitutional amendment by Connecticut's Tilson to return liquor control to the States, glutted both houses. Texas' Blanton touched...
...thousands of letter writers made no moan, bade Cunard lo take courage and finish what Britons had begun. These brisk letter-writers, including many an old lady, finally overwhelmed Cunard Chairman Sir Percy Elly Bates with offers of money which, in some cases, was enclosed in the form of crisp Bank of England notes. For the Cunard Board of Directors there was but one British thing to do. They met under Sir Percy's chairmanship at Liverpool and voted to complete their ?6,000,000 ship on which ?1,000,000 has already been spent...