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...Since the resolution is framed aj a Constitutional Amendment, it would need a two-thirds majority in both houses. Chance that the Ludlow Resolution would ever get much closer to a vote than it was last week was minimized when Majority Leader Sam Rayburn announced that he would exert all his influence to prevent its consideration...
...Justice Brandeis' saying about the height of trees there is no provision for a limit on how far trees should sink their roots into the ground or how wide they should spread. If he has never before exerted the direct influence upon U. S. life that he may be expected to exert henceforth, a case could be made to prove that Louis Dembitz Brandeis has indirectly influenced the trend of U. S. political thought and action as much as the most influential of his colleagues...
Although unable to exert the extra push required in winning games the Freshman football team is growing stronger and stronger in each appearance. Despite a record to date of four successive defeats and not a single victory, Coach Neil Stahley is far from discouraged about his 1941 gridders. As long as the eleven continues to improve in fundamentals, Stahley will be content...
Next day the sun shone again and tempers began to improve. Painters, though forbidden by their unions to exert themselves, plied their brushes vigorously. Plasterers, bricklayer and frame-builders broke into a gallop of activity. By week's end 17 pavilions were finished and functioning, though it was expected that the whole thing would not be ready for a month...
Between seasons Colonel Wise once tested, and later compared with a shark's, the pull that a man can exert swimming against rod & reel. His figures for a 6 ft. 3 in. Princeton water poloist harnessed, and for young male Sand sharks of the same weight (200 lb.) hooked in the mouth...