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...strength with the people, I suggest that they continue to work for a situation which will result in the people being given opportunity to vote directly on ... President Roosevelt and his policies. There can hardly be any doubt what the answer of the people would be."† ¶ Senator Pittman of Nevada: "I have inherent prejudices against a third term, but between Ickes and a third term, I'll take a third term...
...HAWTHORNE ON PAINTING-Pittman Publishing Corp. ($2). To be published...
...Secretary Hull last fortnight went a copy of a Senate Resolution introduced by North Dakota's Nye, proposing to end the embargo on arms shipments to the Spanish Government. Last week, after conferring with Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Hull sent the Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman his reply. This was a terse note to the effect that having adopted a policy of "strict noninterference" the U. S. could not now consistently alter it; and that "even if the legislation applied to both parties, its enactment would still subject us to unnecessary risks we have so far avoided." Furthermore, wrote...
Read to the Committee, the Hull letter caused that body a few minutes later to vote 17-to-1 that consideration of the Nye Resolution be indefinitely postponed. Mr. Pittman symbolically tucked a copy of it away on a shelf for Capital cameramen...
...radio legislation. As soon as Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee announced War, Navy and Interior Department endorsement for the Celler Bill, indicated that plans for a Government station to combat Fascist propaganda in South America had White House backing, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman and Senator William E. Borah added their endorsements...