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...market in an attempt to force prices down. They were taking their cue from U.S. consumers at home, who were also staging something like a buyers' strike. Department-store sales for the week ended March 31 slumped 14% below the corresponding week last year (two weeks before Easter). Business inventories in February piled up to a record $65 billion...
...Until midnight of Thursday before Easter," he said, "everything was as it had been these past 25 years. She visualized Jesus on the Mount of Olives, which brought sweat to her body and blood dripping from her eyes. Then, all of a sudden, just before midnight, her eyes stopped bleeding. She was further tortured in her visions of Jesus' passion and felt mental and physical pains as she had done before. But the bleeding had stopped completely . . . We must take the naked facts as they are. Maybe it was a divine protest against these mass visits organized by money...
Massachusetts' Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, fed up with the dillydallying of the Midwest isolationists in his own party, protested: "It is no time for a group of serious and responsible men such as we are to be talking about a long ten-day Easter vacation." Wherry piously retorted: no one is talking about a vacation. But, as Florida's Democrat Spessard Holland pointed out, the only members who needed to be in the chamber were those who were going to make speeches on the subject before the Senate. Nobody expected any new ideas from them, nobody expected...
Without Leaders. Who was to blame for the Congress' indifferent record at Easter time? Some of the responsibility rested with the Administration, whose requests to Congress had been sweeping and vast-and unspecific. The White House, dallying and fumbling, had supplied little guidance. On Capitol Hill itself there was a woeful lack of leadership. Majority Leader Ernest McFarland, though patient and well-liked, had failed to hold the Senate's nose to the grindstone. Tom Connally, usually impatient and arrogant, could think of nothing better to do in the field of foreign policy than let the opposition talk...
...Socialists succeeded in ending House of Commons sittings before midnight on every day except one last week. Then Parliament recessed over Easter, suspending the Tories' war of nerves against the government. Said the London Economist: "To harass the government on petty matters, to hold Parliament in a state of continuous tension, is all right, and will probably not provoke any real public disapproval, if it does not last very long; after a while . . . it will simply make the opposition look silly...