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...face the Senate vote was a smashing rebuff to President Roosevelt, the second major Congressional defeat of his Administration. But had the President really been heart & soul behind the Court? The wisest answer seemed to be: No. A Court plank had been in his party's platform. It offered an easy means of bolstering his weak foreign record. As much as anything else, defeat had been due to careless White House strategy. Because the President was not ready with his Senate program, opposition to the World Court had had two full weeks to marshal its forces...
...upright was made, Mr. Koehler was positive, from a missing plank in Hauptmann's attic floor. Old nail holes in the upright fitted perfectly into place over the attic floor joists. Its growth rings matched an adjoining floor plank...
...Toronto, Ontario, small Frank Williams toppled from his perch atop a ski-jump under repair, began an Soft, fall with a scream. Perched on a plank 15 ft. below, big Herman Bautzman heard the scream, stretched an arm, yanked small Frank Williams from the air and death...
Relief. When the sub-committee on relief reported its plank, it was evident how far the 90 tycoons had traveled. Three years ago it would have been hard to find one of them who would not have been ready to denounce the pauperizing effect of the dole.* Yet last week. knowing the dole to be far cheaper than made work, their sub-committee plumped solidly for the dole. But such straightforward language would never do. President Roosevelt feels now about the dole as the tycoons felt three years ago, favors work relief as a means of preserving morale among...
...Capitol's Statuary Hall, one of Florida's two immortal sons is Dr. John Gorrie . . ." [TIME, Dec. 3]?wrong again. He is her only son there. Surprised recently at the sight of a gentleman roped to a plank being dragged head first down the Capitol steps, I found him to be the bronze edition of Florida's other son, General E. Kirby Smith, C. S. A., who now stands with several other sons in the Hall of Columns one floor below. Under a Congressional resolution, mainly because the great weight of almost 100 statues was considered unsafe, the Hall...