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...liberals: "I believe that the time has come ... to enact legislation aimed at the prevention of profiteering in time of war and the equalization of the burdens of possible...
When Illinois' Church started to enlarge on his eagerness to enact tax legislation which had not yet been drafted. Leader Rayburn, fearful of what was coming, appealed to Speaker Bankhead: "I did not yield to the gentleman to make a speech...
Under very different auspices the 75th Congress reconvened in a Special Session last week, ostensibly to enact the ambitious program outlined by the President in his fireside chat six weeks ago. New Deal ranks in Congress, split by the fight over Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court last winter, were still sharply divided. The President's popularity, despite his triumphal tour of the West this fall, seemed subject to recheck. Most important of all, what had looked six weeks ago like a minor reaction on the New York Stock Exchange had developed into a major...
...Playhouse at Westport for the summer. Shows which open in the Mt. Kisco theatre will play their second week in the Country Playhouse. Mt. Kisco's and Westport's weekly bills this summer will be something for cinemaddicts as well as theatregoers to see. Henry Fonda will enact The Virginian, Phillips Holmes and Frances Farmer will do The Petrified Forest, following the opening of Eva LeGallienne, on three-year holiday from the Manhattan stage, in Mirandolina...
...five minutes to seven last Sunday evening a squad of actors and a battalion of New York University students, New Jersey high-school children and boys' club members were assembled in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. In five minutes they would begin to enact the most ambitious radio play ever attempted in the U. S., The Fall of the City. Pulitzer Prize Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City, Panic) had written it. Director Irving Reis of Columbia's Workshop of the Air had persuaded Orson Welles, one of the country...