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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ponder the often cited fact that for 98 years photography has been taking over the representational function which once belonged solely to the graphic and plastic arts. Let all readers reflect that prejudice may prevent pleasure in Art's other and no less important properties - color, texture, form.-ED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

When the Senate reconvened after hearing the President's message it found South Carolina's old Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith still sweating to get the farm bill out of committee, the calendar wide open. Senator Smith's junior colleague, Jimmy Byrnes, tried to stave off the inevitable by arguing that in default of the Farm Bill the Senate should proceed to another item on the President's program, his executive reorganization proposals. But anti-lynching advocates led by Missouri's stocky Bennett Clark, one of the Senate's sharpest parliamentarians, protested that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lynch Logorrhea | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...weekend adjournment any hope that the Wagnerites could break through the Southern barrage to bring their bill to a vote had grown dim indeed. It disappeared altogether as the Senate reconvened this week when, with the filibuster going into its sixth successful day, "Cotton Ed" Smith abruptly closed it to his colleagues' intense and unanimous relief by producing his farm bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lynch Logorrhea | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...should not exceed the current "soil conservation" appropriation of $500,000,000. Asked how he reconciled this with the fact that the Farm Bill made no provisions for raising the additional $250, 000,000 which it will probably cost the Government, the Committee's Chairman Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith had no answer, left to the House the problem of raising additional revenue for the payments. Meanwhile last week, the House Agriculture Committee under Marvin Jones was working on a Farm Bill of its own. This too was expected to omit the disagreeable and controversial question of raising money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Days | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Died. Prince Ahmed Seif ed Din, 60, brother-in-law to the late King Fuad of Egypt; in Istanbul. One night in 1898, Ahmed encountered King Fuad in Cairo's hotspot Native Club, accused him of hav-ing mistreated Fuad's first wife (Ahmed's sister), shot him in the throat, so that the King ever after half-coughed, half-cackled. Ahmed cracked rocks for three penitential years, was then deported to an English asylum, escaped after 25 years, has since lived quietly on the Bosphorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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