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There was little doubt that Congress could get action from a public which had sent more than 200 pairs of babies' booties to Senator Elbert Thomas, containing such notes as "I miss my daddy." Every G.I. had the sympathy of the home folks. Everyone thought someone else should...
...President's proposal for fact-finding and cooling-off periods in labor disputes, none could be called a reactionary. Montana's James E. Murray opposed it because his view coincides with the C.I.O.'s, whose leaders are solidly against the measure. Utah's scholarly Elbert D. Thomas, a painstaking legislator, likes to think twice before he makes a law. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, one of the heroes of the old anti-isolationist debates, thought "fact-finding" did not go far enough, that unions must be made more responsible...
...House, Andrew J. May and Clifton A. Woodrum, chairmen respectively of the Military Affairs Committee and the Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy, announced that they would begin studying the problem before the snow flies. In the Senate. Elbert D. Thomas' Military Affairs Committee already had before it a bill, sponsored by Alabama's Lister Hill, which provided the mechanics for merger. It calls...
...talked about upcoming legislation with Utah's Senator Elbert D. Thomas and Kentucky's Representative Andrew May. He talked (upcoming politics, presumably) with Postmaster General Bob Hannegan...
...cumulative bestsellers over the years from 1880 to the present is In His Steps, a pious novel by the Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon describing a community which followed the teachings of Jesus literally. It has sold more than 8,000,000 copies. Close behind, in this order, are Scrapbookster Elbert Hubbard's Message to Garcia (4,000,000), Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (3,625,000), Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People (2,751,000), Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (2,500,000), and Marion Hargrove's See Here...