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...Consumer Blue Eagles were posted up on the White House doors last week. Once more in his own office. President Roosevelt took his recovery program in hand in an attempt to break the jam on steel, oil. lumber and coal codes. He was told that the NRA campaign was going into its most crucial phase. To him were made confidential reports of the precarious labor situation in the coal fields growing out of last week's bituminous code hearing (see p. 9). Though the Pennsylvania mines were again manned, the temper of the miners was still dangerously explosive...
...brand new automobile-the only pomp requested by simple Pilot Post-pilot & party sped to Manhattan, police sirens shrilling through the late city crowds. General Italo Balbo, who had been caught in a traffic jam while trying to reach the field, waved from his car as they shot by. At the Hotel Roosevelt a physician found Post's condition good, noted that his hand was steady as a rock...
When the World Series is being played, when wars are waged, when steamships sink, thick crowds jam the sidewalks of Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue at E Street to read the bulletins in the Washington Post's windows. A straw-hatted crowd jammed the sidewalk one day last week, surged up the front stairs of the grey stone pile, but not to read bulletins. The crowd was there to see the 56-year-old newspaper auctioned (TIME...
...afternoon as chief performers in a public spectacle. In the Senate Banking & Currency Committee room they faced the Committee before a battery of cameras (Kleig lights were installed in the elaborate chandeliers) under the surveillance of a battalion of newshawks, and completely surrounded by as many spectators as could jam into the room. In tribute to the drawing power of the late great Morgan, his namesake was kept on the stand as much as possible though he could give few details. To get an accurate account of transactions Partner Whitney had to bear the brunt of questioning. When the house...
...general program for the Republic established. Conservatives have kept the Church bill, passed piecemeal, from becoming law by festooning its articles with hundreds of amendments, talking for days. Premier Azana last fortnight drummed up the votes of every Cabinet Minister, even of deputies out on diplomatic missions, to jam through by one vote what Spanish deputies call the "Guillotine," a cloture rule which the government can invoke with a simple majority. Then off went all the amendments to the remaining articles, and the Church bill was "guillotined" through last week, 278 to 50, few minority members bothering to register their...