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...Approved the $37,000,000 omnibus Rivers & Harbors Bill, sent it to conference...
...omnibus volume, illustrated with 14 romantic paintings by N. C. Wyeth, part real-estate ad, part history, part guide book, all of it unadulterated Mainiac bragging, Trending Into Maine aims belligerently at these main points: 1) that "there are no better people anywhere in the world" than State-of-Mainers, 2) that writers who call Maine natives "dour, sour, cautious, calculating yokels," are dirty liars, and 3) that Maine voters are still the true defenders of liberty, and to hell with Roosevelt...
...Fight for Peace (Warwick) is a bitter, angry omnibus of war, given point & purpose by a tart narrative from the pen of author Hendrik Willem Van Loon. These patched-fogether newsreel shots show actual scenes from modern war: liquid fire spraying Ethiopia; China's cities, roadsides and streams piled with stinking dead; anguished Spanish mothers digging their mangled children from smoking ruins, as big, black bombers wheel off overhead...
...raising the tax on gasoline from eight pence (16?) per gallon to ninepence (18?) Including the new tax, the British motorist will now pay about 39? for an imperial gallon of gas-equivalent to about 35½for what U. S. citizens call a gallon. Immediately this week British omnibus companies raised their fares, so that Sir John upped gasoline tax really "soaked everybody...
Faced with its impressive omnibus, a joint Congressional committee last year soon fell to squabbling, finally split apart to work on it separately. The House Committee divided the bill into four sections, passed two last August. The Senate bill, introduced by Joe Robinson last June, was rewritten by South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes and reintroduced in January, finally emerged from committee last month. Last week, the Senate settled down to work on it with a will...