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...Ways & Means Committee* and House Minority Leader Snell. Excerpt: "On behalf of vast numbers of our fellow citizens, we appeal through you to the Senate and the House to lay aside every form of partisanship and quickly to unite to adopt a balanced Federal budget as well as to enact a plan of taxation . economically sound, fair . . . and without discrimination. ... It is our judgment that conditions are so grave that this action should be taken at the earliest possible moment...
...this anniversary, Col. Lindbergh was at his Hopewell, N. J. home, watching sleuths re-enact the kidnapping of his baby...
Dancers in Diego Rivera costumes proceeded to enact the story of H. P. Russian Alexis Dolinoff appeared first, wearing an electric coil or two and a welder's visor. On his back the letters H. P. identified him like a football player. The libretto said he was "in the plenitude of his intellect, sentiments and physical powers...
...Last Armistice Day was splendidly cele brated in this town. A nearby hilly and wooded meadow was chosen to enact a sham attack on an imaginary position. Real machine guns swept No-Man's-Land with continuous fire and cunningly placed bombs exploded at the right time. The attacking forces to a man won their objective and the thousands of spectators were thrilled by their exploit until some youngsters broke from the crowd and proceeded to imitate them, while the unavailing efforts of a private in khaki to send them back produced roars of laughter from the onlookers. If more...
...habit of winning victories. Last fortnight he got through Congress his constitutional reform abolishing the "lame duck" session of Congress.? In Senator Norris' patience there is an Oriental quality which takes no heed of time to accomplish its purpose. For a full decade he worked to enact the "lame duck" amendment. His advocacy of anti-injunction labor legislation is of almost as long