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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Law-Making. When Joe Robinson was Majority Floor Leader of the Senate, no Democrat would have dreamed of trying to slip over an important bill when the Leader was away from his desk or preoccupied. Last week the level to which the supposedly ruling party had fallen was sensationally exposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Collapse In the Capitol | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Sleepy "Shay" Minton managed to detain Senator Logan's passed bill at the Senate's threshold last week by a motion to reconsider, but if it passes the House this week, Kentucky's Logan will have a historic triumph over "administrative autocracy."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Collapse In the Capitol | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

More impressive than any Labor demonstration was a report addressed to all Congressmen this week by the U. S. Conference of Mayors. These gentlemen declared that if Congress does not rescind its requirement that localities contribute 25% of WPA project costs, the WPA money voted by Congress for this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: System Wrecked? | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

*For eleven centuries, the superstitious have believed that if rain fell on St. Swithin's Day (July 15), rain would thereafter fall for 40 days; and vice versa. This year's dry St. Swithin's Day was followed by an Eastern drought, with crops burning in four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Henry's Egg | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Leak. Although Mr. Chamberlain did not know how the story of the conversations could have leaked out, the angry, outspoken Mr. Hudson had an idea that it was none other than Dr. Wohlthat who had broken his confidence. If that were so, Dr. Wohlthat could scarcely have done a better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Smoke and Fire | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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