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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney-General Murphy's pep meetings for U. S. District Attorneys (see p. 16) and the National Parole Conference were occasions in Washington last week calling for speeches by a man whose thin, shrill voice is seldom heard outside the House of Representatives, though there it commands respect: Representative Hatton Walker Sumners of Dallas, Tex., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...
Germany's fleet plowed past the cliffs of Dover (see p. 23), Benito Mussolini called Franklin Roosevelt a Messianic meddler and Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a convivial vociferator* (see p. 26), but still there was no actual fighting in Europe last week. Meanwhile the U. S. people continued the process of making up their collective mind about War (how to provide against its coming) and Peace (how to preserve it). The process consisted, as it must in a democracy, of sound-offs hither & yon, pro & con. Most notable...
...When Dean Helen Taft Manning of Bryn Mawr College-isolationist sister of Presidentially ambitious Senator Robert A. Taft who last week accused Franklin D. Roosevelt of "ballyhooing" war in order to play politics (see p. 21)-urged the same committee to stiffen the present neutrality law and make it more instead of less inflexible, arch-isolationist Senator Borah demanded: "Haven't the people [of the U. S.] already made up their minds who is right and who is wrong? The world is already at war. Already things have taken place which make other nations look...
Coincident with the arrival in the U. S. of a copy of the 724-year-old Magna Charta (see p. 77), Connecticut last week became the 48th State to ratify the 150-year-old Bill of Rights (first ten amendments) of the U. S. Constitution. Urging the State Senate's unanimous vote on a joint resolution, State Senator Frank A. Murphy of Hartford expostulated: "Time marches...
Alfred Emanuel Smith last week announced that in each & every one of the men, Republican or Democratic, now suggested for P'residential nomination, "There is nothing ... to get very enthusiastic about." Said he: "The kind of a President that is needed . . . who would go in and clean up this mess, would be about as popular as Gillette at a barbers' convention...