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While Congress thought about money, it was doing very little about the four-point legislative program the President proposed for it last month. Consequently when, at week's end, word arrived at the Miami base where Secretary Marvin Mclntyre was in charge, that the President had decided to come ashore a day earlier than originally planned, go direct to Washington instead of stopping off at Gainesville and Warm Springs, Ga., political reporters promptly began to draw conclusions. Reason given by the President was that his infected jaw-from which Commander Arthur H. Yando, White House dentist, extracted a diseased...
When Congress convened in Extraordinary Session last fortnight, extraordinary tasks confronted it: the President's four-point legislative program, to which Recession had added the pressing problem of tax revision. When Congress completed its second week of the Special Session, its task was still just as formidable as it had been. In its second week in Washington, the Senate managed to stop filibustering about antilynching, but debate had not become notably intelligent. In the House, the most noteworthy result of, the second week was an opportunity long sought for one of that body's most obscure members...
...tables were assembling not hats but a plan of campaign against their rival brothers of toil. They were the representatives of 102 national and international unions,* members of the A. F. of L. They had been called together by the Federation's Executive Council to approve a four-point plan of battle against John L. Lewis' C. I. 0. in U. S. Labor's civil war. The plan...
Fifty years ago last week at Chicago, a triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church prayerfully considered and at length approved a four-point formula for Christian Unity. Adopted by a Pan-Anglican Lambeth Conference in 1900, the Lambeth Quadrilateral stands today, a noble idea like the League of Nations which may some day work. Its formulators invited all Christendom to accept: " 1) the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as revealed Word of God; 2) the Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of the Christian Faith; 3) the two Sacraments -Baptism and the Supper...
...indoor Winter program of the Club is carried on in the range in the basement of Memorial Hall where a four-point 50 feet firing range is available. The Club owns three .22 caliber target rifles for the use of its members. The targets are supplied by the Club and last year ammunition was supplied by the Club throughout the season. The range in Memorial Hall is under the supervision of the Naval Science Department, and a coach will be available from them for Club members. Tentative plans provide for the range to be open daily and one evening...