Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress. First reaction of Congress, one of stunned amazement, did not last long. Second reaction was a frantic effort by Administration leaders to forestall a muckraking committee investigation. In the House, TVA appropriations are under the Military Affairs Committee, whose new chairman, Kentuckian Andrew Jackson May, is a crusty opponent of the TVA power program and willing to rake all the muck possible. Best thing Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could do under the circumstances was to trust his fellow Texan Maury Maverick, who had introduced a resolution calling for a joint House and Senate investigation of all charges...
Senator Bridges (in an effort to show that TVA had wasted public funds): There is the story about a jackass down in the Tennessee Valley...
Contrasting the Crime Club's late Edgar Wallace with the Saturday Evening Post's Stephen Vincent Benet, "Dangerous To Know" and "Love, Honor, and Behave" constitute an average double bill. Mr. Wallace's effort is by far the better, and to his good, albeit depressing, story is added fine performances by Akim Tamiroff and Anna May Wong--the music-loving gangster and his "hostess," respectively. But "Love, Honor, and Behave" fails completely to be either an amusing musicale or a sound social drama, succeeding only in convincing a spineless Yale graduate (Wayne Morris) that he should spank his wife (Priscilla...
...Charles T. Moses snapped: "Certain scientific facts may be misleading and damaging to young minds." Senator Vivian Page shrilled: "We should teach the children that their first drink will be their worst." Thereupon the Senators unanimously banned the book from Virginia's schools. Last week, in a final effort to exorcise rum from Virginia, they ordered that copies of the book, printed as a Senate document, be destroyed. To the authors they hastily returned all copyright privileges, leaving Drs. Waddell & Haag free to offer the books to schools in other States if they dared...
...Strayer strode to the auditorium platform to again demand "separation of Church and State," boomed: "If this movement develops sufficient strength, we may find ourselves in the not distant future committed to a program which will deny to the people the control of their schools." But he made no effort to amend the resolution. At the week's end as the harassed leaders of the National Education Association prepared to draft a bill, it appeared that the battle over Federal aid had merely been shifted to Washington...