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...provisions that seemed to invade U.S. sovereignty. But ailing President Wilson stubbornly urged Senate Democrats to insist on all or nothing. On the showdown roll call, Lodge and most of his fellow Republicans voted for ratification of the Covenant (with 14 Lodge Reservations); 13 Republicans and 42 Democrats voted nay. As Grandson Lodge later pointed out, the U.N. Charter that the U.S. Senate ratified almost unanimously in 1945 included sovereignty safeguards similar to those his grandfather urged back in 1920, e.g., the Charter provision prohibiting the U.N. from intervening in matters "essentially within the domestic jurisdiction" of any member...
...bill to extend for another year, at present rates, the corporation and excise taxes scheduled to shrink on July 1. But that was all the tax trimming the Senate did. It voted down a flurry of tax-cut proposals, passed the Smathers-nicked Administration bill with nary an audible nay. Ahead this week: a House-Senate conference to decide whether the House, which approved a hold-the-line bill with no exceptions, will stand still for the Smathers amendments...
...Windward Islands (pop. 321,600) produce bay rum on St. Lucia, nutmeg on Grenada (pronounced Gre-nay-da), arrowroot for babies' cookies on St. Vincent, and cocoa on Dominica (pronounced Dom-i-nee-ka,). St. Lucia houses a U.S. missile-tracking station for Cape Canaveral's downrange...
...Best Pal." Leopold seems to have an oddly clumsy, cloying sentimentality; in a gushing letter to Clarence Darrow, he wrote about the lawyer's courage in taking the case: "Nay, it is more than bravery. It is heroism." From prison he wrote a poem to his aunt ("Birdie, angel bright and fair. So sweet of face and white of hair"), and when he tells of Loeb's murder by a fellow convict, Leopold writes solemnly: "Strange as it may sound, he had been my best...
Housing. With nary a nay, the Senate okayed a pump-priming Democratic bill authorizing an additional $1.8 billion in federal housing loans, as reports showed private housing starts had fallen from 64,200 in January to 60,000 in February...