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With the ferocity of Hyrcanian tigers, the House of Representatives fell upon the first spending bill submitted by the Administration this year and slashed $150,000,000 (17%) off the deficiency appropriation for WPA (TIME, Jan. 23). Still snarling like the most savage, sabre-toothed Economizers ever heard in the political jungles, House Republicans and anti-Administration Democrats ganged up on the Administration's second appropriation measure-a general Deficiency Bill-and chewed $3,550,000* off the bill's budgeted total of $13,529,000-an impressive saving of 26% which would have been truly sensational...
After their election victories of last November, it is now the turn of Rightists to try pillars of the Left, and ever since Congress convened they have been at it. Felix Frankfurter, Harry Hopkins, Frank Murphy led the parade, were obliged to take the witness chair and state publicly their political beliefs. Comparatively they made a much less diverting show, for the possession of even "radical" beliefs is less dramatic than the possession of great wealth, and these Leftists were far nimbler witnesses than the scared Rightists. Last week came the trials of two more Leftists, and again the performances...
Naval preoccupation with South America is historic. The Monroe Doctrine has ever been a handy reason for a Big Navy. But the Navy's traditional reason for existence has long been Japan and its threat to U. S. possessions and trade in the Pacific. Japan outnumbers the U. S. in some ship categories, particularly submarines. Leahy & Co. do not worry greatly about this, having small respect for Japanese numbers. By U. S. standards, the Japanese have yet to learn to build efficient surface ships, tend to overload them with disastrously topheavy armor and guns...
...wrestling was made an intercollegiate sport at Harvard, the year that Pat Johnson started his wrestling career here which culminated in the winning of the national championship in the 135-pound class. About this time Lehigh was becoming the foremost eastern wrestling representative, a position which it has maintained ever since. Harvard was admitted into the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling League, at the time a rather exclusive organization, due to the efforts of Bill Bingham, whose love of the sport has been an important factor in the rise of Harvard wrestling...
News of a possibly non-alcoholic Carnival broke too late to prevent the usual exodus from Northampton, Wellesely, and Poughkeepsie. Outing Club officials said that the festival was as "gay, popular, and boisterous as ever...