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Martin D. Schwartz, '38, gives a spirited account of the career of "Middletown's Maverick Mayor." It is a good piece of contemporary history writing...
...veterans' bonus, this was $1,290,000,000 more than in 1936. Final item of the 1937 total was last week's Third Deficiency Bill of $87,622,634. Passage of the bill included a victory for the House Liberal bloc headed by Texas' noisy Maury Maverick, who wanted $20,000,000 for an experimental Government farm tenancy program, $1,800,000 for the National Labor Relations Board, got both...
...regarded them as mere colonies. Whereas New York or Georgia might refine all the sugar they could get their hands on, the House restricted Hawaiian refiners to 3%, Puerto Rico refiners to 16% of their own sugar which they produce for consumption on the mainland. This action Congressman Maury Maverick compared to declaring that "cotton grown in North Carolina couldn't be made into towels there...
...time Senator Bone's bill and companion bills sponsored by Representatives Bulwinkle of North Carolina and Maverick of Texas came up for public hearings. Half the cancer specialists of the country, persuaded by Dr. Lewis Ryers Thompson, assistant surgeon general of the U. S. Public Health Service, appeared to testify. Franklin Roosevelt, sitting in his office, last week squiggled his signature and the Bone-Bulwinkle Bill became...
...reach of the fevered Manhattanite who is looking for an evening's fun in the country. Long Island is dotted with them from the Red Barn Theatre at Locust Valley to the John Drew Memorial Theatre at East Hampton. There are also the Starlight Theatre at Pawling, the Maverick Theatre at Woodstock, the Country Theatre at Suffern, the Reginald Goode Theatre at Clinton Hollow. Upstate and outstate the summer theatre season becomes even more substantial. At Ithaca performances will be given by summer students of Ithaca College and of Cornell's University Theatre. Union College at Schenectady...