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Worst of all is the unending throb of political oratory. Senator Taft confided that he was getting awfully tired of the sound of his own voice, reciting the same speeches day after day. But each time he tries to redraft his principal speech ("The Speech," as accompanying newsmen call it), he finds he has missed or obscured important points, so he reverts to the same old texts. Even so, he said, "I have to change them sometimes, because I can't stand them myself...
...George M. Harrison became consultant to the Office of Defense Mobilization. That was six weeks ago. Since then, Harrison has shuttled between San Francisco, Cincinnati and Washington, attended union meetings, helped to redraft his union's bylaws, met with the Railway Labor Executives Association. Not once has he hung his hat in the office set aside for him by Mobilizer Charlie Wilson. Fortnight ago, Harrison got around at last to doing something about his new responsibility. He stopped by for a chat with Wilson, and asked to be formally sworn in. That didn't mean...
...private law practice while serving as counsel for the Senate special war investigating committee. The President vetoed it, because of technicalities, on the advice of Attorney General Tom Clark, discovered to his embarrassment that he had signed similar legislation before. To save the presidential face, the Senate agreed to redraft the bill, send it through again...
...indeed? asked the President's vastly heartened Opposition. Senator Burke promptly proclaimed that he would redraft his amendment to include Dean Smith's staggered retirement system and uniform State conventions. Texas' Tom Connally, another Presidential Plan antagonist, planned one without the stagger. Most significant converts were two Judiciary Committeemen, Kentucky's Logan and New Mexico's Hatch, who had been leaning reluctantly toward the President's Plan. Senator Hatch, who postponed private engagements in order to hear Dean Smith out, announced after the hearing that he was ready to go whole...
...also declared, surprisingly, that he "could not" veto a ten month extension as proposed by Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark. The Senators marched back to the Capitol, where next day five of them joined other Finance Committee members in approving by 16-to-4 a redraft of the Clark resolution. In effect it offered an emasculated Blue Eagle less than ten months to flutter to its grave. The resolution would extend NRA to April 1, 1936, grant a 30-day period after the present June 16 expiration date for revision of existing codes to its specifications. The death-dealing...