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Following the tradition of pre-war days when Congressmen were sure of getting home every summer and their biggest worry was the New Deal, the eightieth Congress has spent its first few weeks busily doing nothing. The Senate has been in session 36 days, the House 40. Legislative oratory filled almost 3500 closely printed pages in the Congressional Record. Over 4000 measures have been introduced. By the first of this week 13,442 nominations from the executive department had been received. Innumerable hours have been spent in tedious, boring committee meetings...
...legislative confusion that confounded Wood-row Wilson in 1918 and Herbert Hoover in 1930 may appear again--while the United States writhes in another world crisis--when the votes of next Tuesday's election are tabulated and the Eightieth Congress is on its way to Washington. Both the pages of history and the opinions of "political experts" portend a loss of Democratic power. But should scattered defeats become a national rout, both the voting records of Republican congressmen and the plans of G.O.P. leaders augur two years of stalemate and a future of reaction...
...Hold That Blonde," infested with both Bracken and Veronica Lake, supplies two answers to this question. In the first place, it is a source of endless pleasure to see Bracken hanging by his finger tips from about the eightieth floor of a New York skyscraper while his hands are pounded by a drunk with a cane. The tragic outcome of the scene (Bracken doesn't fall), while anticlimactic, fails to take the edge off the prospect of his immediate and horrible death...
...vogue of Slavic music is definitely past; for Koussevitzky to make as much money out of Tchaikovsky as Freddy Martin is a form of disrespect for his audience. The celebration, with much pomp, of the eightieth birthday of a composer who stopped writing 20 years ago, and whose acceptability has been constantly sinking since, is not in the best of taste: let the poor...
...gathering Conant will address an audience of more than 5000 chemists and industrialists on the subject of "Science and the National Welfare." The meeting, which will continue until Friday, is the one hundred eightieth consecutive convocation of the American Chemical Society...