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...MAKING OF A PRESIDENT?H. L. Mencken?Knopf ($1.50). Reprints of Mencken's newspaper reports of the Republican and Demo cratic Conventions...
...Passed (205-to-109) a bill authorizing an appropriation of $132,500,000 for emergency highway construction to increase employment; sent it to the Senate. Of the total, $120,000,000 would be lent States to spend in one year, repay in ten. Demo-crats claimed the measure would put a million jobless men to work. Republicans predicted a Presidential veto...
Last week President Hoover appointed Chief Judge Benjamin Nathan Cardozo of New York's Court of Appeals to fill the Supreme Court vacancy made by the retirement of Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (TIME, Jan. 25). Senatorial Insurgents, Republicans and Demo-crats alike, unanimously applauded the choice. In making the appointment, which only a miracle could prevent the Senate from confirming, the President disregarded party and geographical distinctions. Judge Cardozo is a Democrat, although he has the support of both parties in his State, and will be the third New York member of the nation's highest tribunal...
What brought relief matters close to a head last week was a six-day debate on the Costigan-La Follette bill which was made the Senate's unfinished business. For weeks in committee the Insurgent-Demo-cratic heart of Edward Prentiss Costigan and the Insurgent-Republican heart of Robert Marion La Follette bled as one witness after another told them how the nation's private charity organizations had all but broken down under the load of local relief. The Costigan-La Follette remedy was a $375.000.000 gift from the Govern-ment through the States to jobless citizens...
...Follette eyed the chamber coldly and remarked that unless something was done pretty quickly "there would be some empty seats in the next Senate." It was about this time that the weather-vane abruptly whirred about. Aware that final say on the matter would be up to a Demo-cratic House, the Senate's Republican majority sat by and let Democratic Senators fight it out among themselves...