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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Affairs Committee of the Governing Parties in the House of Commons is an unofficial organization, composed of Members of Parliament, which meets from time to time in secret sessions. Its purpose is to offer the Cabinet, whose members are barred from its meetings, unofficial advice on British foreign policy. It is generally led by men who have served in other Cabinets who enjoy talking off the record. Last week this strange political organism assembled privately in a House of Commons committee room to discuss the aftermath of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Even the Parliamentary innocents who revolted...
...rule that a U. S. President, like plain citizens, needs an occasional friendly cheer to lift and reassure his spirits. No more is he an exception to the rule that a President also needs a friend with the gumption to remind him that he cannot always be right, offer sympathetic but searching criticism of his plans and purposes, occasionally say "no" to his bright inspirations. More impulsive than most, Franklin Roosevelt had such a salutary intimate in the late Louis McHenry Howe. Since that devoted little secretary took to his deathbed more than a year ago, impartial White House correspondents...
When the bill was brought up for amendment last week, the reading clerk rattled through it like a train announcer, skipping paragraphs and whole sections, flipping three or four pages at a time. Primed to offer an amendment, Wisconsin's Progressive Harry Sauthoff discovered that the clerk had passed his section, had to raise a point of no quorum three times and finally threaten to demand a careful reading of the whole bill before Democratic leaders would consent to a re-reading of the section. On the quorum calls the presiding officer, North Carolina's Lindsay Warren, glanced...
...thought or said. Another was their belief that, no matter what bill they passed, the Senate would rewrite it. But the chief reason, which applied to Democrats as well as Republicans, was expressed by Speaker Byrns as follows: "I don't think there will be many Republican amendments offered. They can't be expected to offer amendments when they don't understand the bill." The tax proposals which President Roosevelt sent to Congress in March were aimed at two major ends: 1) Radical reform and simplification of the complex U. S. tax system by repeal of existing...
...gathering, and it presumes that President Conant and the Corporation accepted the invitation to participate in the celebration entirely unfamiliar with the existing situation in Germany. To withdraw from the 550th anniversary celebration of a University which has stood, until recently, for the very best that education has to offer, would be an act of supreme discourtesy to Heidelberg and to the reputation that it has built up over five centuries. The Harvard Student Union is merely trying to make an issue of a non-political problem, because it is unable to resist any opportunity to take a crack...