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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week, in the caucus room of the Old House Office Building, there opened a Congressional investigation as suave, sophisticated, polite and cynical as a Somerset Maugham comedy. It was the beginning of the Smith Committee hearings of the Wagner Act-that most crucial piece of New Deal legislation, passed to safeguard labor's historic right to bargain collectively through unions of its own choosing...
...Last July Congress authorized the Smith Committee to investigate the Wagner Act, to find out whether the Labor Board had been fair, to see what amendments, if any, were needed, and gave it $50,000 as a starter. To tall, solemn, silent Representative Howard Smith of Broad Run, Va., who has hated the New Deal ever since it tried to purge him last year, it gave the delicate job of chairman. With wealthy Lawyer Edmund Toland and 22 attorneys assisting (called brilliant legal lights by the Right, called tools of reaction by the Left), it checked on the work...
Fifty years later Lumberman George T. Webb heard about these pines, took a look, last September bought up the stock of the Rugby Land Co. for $15,000. Soon his loggers began to fell the timber on the outskirts of the tract, getting closer & closer to the little village, until one pine crashed across the church fence. Aroused, tree lovers, historians, librarians of Tennessee, the few surviving Rugbyans protested. To their appeal for help, Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, who was born nine 'miles from Rugby, wired earnestly but distantly: "Only God can make a tree...
...Ross Wyatt, 36, was jailed, charged under the involved Texas law with "burglary of a private residence at nighttime with intent to commit a felony; to wit, murder." For 16 months beak-faced Principal Wyatt languished in the Dallas jail; once, on the trial date, pneumonia reprieved him. Last week the "love-bomb" trial began. From Chicago flew 26-year-old Mary...
There are 13 Atlantas in the U. S., but only one mattered last week.* Atlanta, Ga. was the place where Gone With the Wind opened (see p. 30); where Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh passed by and the Negroes said: "I seen 'em!"; where Banker Robert Strickland wept for Melanie and said: "By God, I'm not ashamed"; where young ladies in their grandmas' crinolines and young bucks in fawn vests and pantaloons skittered through Peachtree Street and Henry Grady Square at dawn; where old, old people remembered the Battle of Atlanta and Sherman and the flames...