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...weeks ago was virtually unknown outside West Germany and known within it mainly as the Minister-President of a German state, then took the oath of office as head of an unprecedented government: a grand coalition of the two major parties?the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats???that have bitterly fought each other for years. A union of black and red, it was a marriage of convenience?but a stunning match nonetheless...
...Reed sprung a surprise, and for once the fighting Missourian had the Democrats behind him to a man. He called a resolution ordering a special committee of five Senators to investigate campaign expenditures, a committee on which there should be two regular Republicans, one Progressive Republican and two Democrats???giving the opposition the majority...
Forty Republicans and 36 Democrats???76 in all?voted for the Court, although the maximum number which might have been necessary...
...Committee of the Whole referred the bill to the House for a formal vote. Nearly all jumped on the band wagon. Only 25 negative votes were passed?by two Socialists, three Farmer-Laborites, ten Republicans (mostly from Wisconsin) and ten Democrats???among them Rainey?bloody but unbowed...
...bonus?this bonus?as an issue is past. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts has already introduced a bill for a cash bonus, a harbinger of the future policy of the Democrats???but the insurance bonus is past as an issue. As a problem and a task of administration it has just begun. The Government set to work to solve it. The Veterans' Bureau is in charge of administering the law, but a large part of the work will fall on the War and Navy Departments, which will have to check all applications against their files and authorize the correctness...