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...Rutgers one day last week 34 members of Lambda Chi Alpha were at luncheon when up drove a truck from which 700 gal. of fuel were piped into the tank of their oil-burning furnace. After luncheon all but nine members went off to classes...
...secretary to Democratic Senators and Representatives, was made Sergeant at Arms of the Senate last year, dropped his other duties and sallied forth from the Senate accompanied by J. Mark Trice, Deputy Sergeant at Arms and official Storekeeper. Sergeant Jurney wore grey striped trousers, a cutaway, a black 10-gal. hat, a heavy overcoat with a red handkerchief hanging out of its pocket. He carried a document signed by Vice President Garner directing him to "take into custody the body of the said William P. MacCracken before the bar of the Senate." A few minutes later in an office...
Irish leader was Edward Cleary, a "graduate" of Sing Sing. He was found drunk in bed. In his dormitory and in the cosy little study he had fitted up for himself and his staff were three 10-gal. milk cans of home brew, a "deck" of heroin, a refrigerator bulging with contraband provisions which he sold or bartered for services...
Work Done. Business of the week was passage of the liquor tax bill, providing a levy of $2 a gal. on spirits; and from 10? to $1.10 a gal. on wines (estimated revenue: $500,000,000). It passed 388 to 5 after two days' windy debate...
...chair should parties change. Chairman Doughton is shortly to be translated to the Tariff Commission. His probable successor is stalwart, pipe-smoking Democrat Samuel Billingsley Hill. In the picture the gentlemen are cogitating liquor taxes. They decided to up the spirits tax from $1.10 to $2 per gal. and the House swiftly agreed (see p. 15). The Senate group on ways & means is called the Finance Committee, Mississippi's Pat Harrison, chairman. Besides raising money, Congress has the duties of spending it and denning it. For these two purposes each house has two other potent committees. The two Appropriation...