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...Thoroughly displeased would be President Hoover to see Congress take a recess over the national conventions with its legislative job unfinished. Senators calling at the White House departed with the firm idea that the session must continue until the tax and economy bills are enacted. Practically abandoned was the hope that Congress could shut up shop by June 11 and go larking to the party assemblies in Chicago...
...When a political idealist named Mouser from Ohio proposed that Congressmen strike their idle relatives from the clerk hire payroll, he was howled down (8840-40) by a membership addicted to nepotism. So excited became the sessions that members loudly complained of "ragged nerves," begged for a recess...
Last night the Pudding gave the first performance since the trip during the spring recess. Another showing is scheduled for tonight, and when the final curtain falls tomorrow evening, the play will have been presented before the public eight times. Both performances begin at 8.15 o'clock...
...presentations at the Mecca Temple in New York, and the Academy of Music in Northampton during the recess on April 8 and 9 were enthusiastically received. The 35 members of the Club who appear in the play have been ably cast by John Boyle who came from Broadway to produce the Pudding show...
Things were astir in Detroit last week. Businessmen lunching at the Recess Club were glad to forget the lambasting their favorite industry received during the first two months of the year. That U. S. automobile production had dropped 40% from the same period in 1931, that February's output had been 2,000 below January instead of showing the usual gain, did not worry them as much as it had. Their thoughts were on the present and future instead of the past. In the present was the industry's big spring sales drive, to be mightier than ever...