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Hero of the beer bill's prompt passage by the House was chunky Representative Thomas Henry Cullen from a tough waterfront district in Brooklyn. A square-faced, hard-boiled Democrat, with a lower lip like Maurice Chevalier's, he is the House's Assistant Majority Leader. In disgrace because of his stand against the President's economy bill fortnight ago, he retrieved some of his lost prestige by sponsoring the Administration's beer bill on the floor. By amending the Volstead Act the measure authorized beer of 3.2% alcoholic content by weight, imposed...
...covetous representative body. The kindly eye of the administration is, at present, very valuable, and has been very skillfully and assiduously attracted by Congressional aspirants to office. But the difficult problems arise when one of the party sirens, such as Mr. Curley, grows suspicious and restive, and loudly demands prompt action. To grant Mayor Curley his appointment would antagonize and embitter an important political group; to refuse it would invite recriminations and disclosures which might create a very bad small indeed...
...learn the details of what they had just done. Florida's Fletcher, benign rosy-cheeked chairman of the Senate's Banking & Currency Committee, nominal sponsor for the measure, conveyed little information. Senator Fletcher nipped his hands up & down helplessly, spoke of the necessity for prompt action and left it to Virginia's Glass, No. 2 man on the committee, to do the explaining...
...sooner had Congress passed his emergency banking bill last week than President Roosevelt executed his second bold stroke in two days by asking it to enact such breath-taking proposals. His demand in a special message for "courageous, frank and prompt action" was predicated upon the necessity for balancing a budget more than $1,000,000,000 out of plumb. His economy reforms were designed to save at least half that sum. The measure giving him dictatorial power over veterans' expenditures and Federal salaries was entitled: "A Bill to Maintain the Credit of the United States...
...TIME so chock-full of interestingly told news, you will have me applying to the commissaries, since my exchequer will not stand a subscription for each of the five members of my household. There is a scramble to see who shall be first to get the latest copy of prompt-arriving TIME. It usually results that "father" has to read the copy after everyone else has gone to sleep, with the consequence that "father" gets very little sleep that night...