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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honestly believed in this plan or felt that the House, heretofore gagged, should be given a chance to express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen to go on record on a politically troublesome issue; 2) it would be a backdown by the House on its claim that the Senate had no constitutional authority to originate such a "revenue-raising" plan...
Senator Caraway of Arkansas had a newsstory of the affair read into the Congressional Record, refraining carefully, save for a characteristic wrinkling of his nose, from any comment. But South Carolina's Senator Blease blurted: "Didn't I warn my audiences in the South in the last campaign that this would happen, if Hoover should be elected? ... I told them Negroes would be eating in the White House next!" Other Southern Senators, including Texas' Sheppard, Alabama's Heflin, Mississippi's Harrison, "deplored" the event, viewed it as a "recognition of social equality," warned of "infinite...
...Guardia arose to defend the fame of that late great Latin, Christopher Columbus. "The House,'' he cried, "ought not to attempt to write history." While expressing 'the greatest admiration and love and affection for the people of Iceland." he clung to the "tangible historical record of the discovery by Columbus...
Died. Ray Keech, 28, of Philadelphia, onetime truck driver, onetime (April, 1928) holder of the world's auto speed record (207.55 m. p. h.), winner of the Indianapolis race on Memorial Day (TIME, June 10); at Altoona, Pa., Speedway, in a four-car smash-up while traveling at a speed...
...them, break down the cell walls and allow flavor-giving juices to escape. The quicker the freezing, the smaller the crystals and the less the breakage. Old time freezing methods took 36 hours; other quick-freezing methods take 100 minutes. Mr. Taylor has cut an hour from the previous record. Thus the inland housewife can buy fish which, though frozen, are still essentially fresh, have the flavor and quality of fish newly caught. The Taylor, Birdseye and other quick-freezing processes have been important factors in the recently renewed prosperity of the fishing industry. Back in 1918, the fish industry...