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Besides Jimmy Byrnes, Alva Adams-and Jack Garner-the man responsible for aligning votes to beat Leader Barkley and the Administration in this first big Senate showdown of the year, was Pat Harrison. The result showed how much wiser Franklin Roosevelt might have been had he let that shrewd old reliable from Mississippi win the Majority Leadership after Joe Robinson died, instead of intervening for "Dear Alben." Leader Barkley, however, was up against not only Garner, Adams, Byrnes, Harrison & Co., he was also up against a Trend. Of 35 Senators elected or re-elected last November, 21 voted for Economy...
...months ago asked Douglas to show the French the new plane, was turned down because of Army objections; 2) Mr. Bullitt appealed to Franklin Roosevelt, who reversed the Army decision; 3) General Arnold signed the permit for French inspection of the plane on orders from the White House. Immediate result: preparation of a bill to give military authorities sole discretion in opening U. S. aircraft facilities to foreign purchasers...
...Last week in San Francisco the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the $500 paid. But meanwhile, in this complicated world, Dollar Lines has been taken over by the American President Line and the American President Line has the Government of the U. S. behind it. Net result: from the U. S. subsidized line to the U. S. inspector's employer, $500 for garbage inopportunely dumped...
Those who study world diplomacy know that if war comes in the next few years, it will be the result of some further aggressive act on the part of the totalitarian powers which an aroused set of democracies will refuse to stomach. The democracies will not themselves precipitate the crisis. But they will, if they continue their half-hearted resistance, encourage their potential enemies to drive on to the end of the rope. Conversely, a truly positive stand, coupled with an honest recognition of the necessity of peaceful change, can-or at least offers the best chance to -avert...
After the faceoff the blood begins to flow in copious quantities. The Winthrop forward line, composed of Jack Kennedy, Torby Macdonald, and Ben Smith goes crashing down toward the Lowell cage, battering the puck about like an old shoe. The usual result of such a foray into enemy territory is a terrific 10-man collision, the nucleus of which is the man with the puck. There is no escaping this sort of defense. Then Lowell's Bud Doering takes the misshapen rubber disk that has been beaten to a pulp by the Winthrop bludgeons, and careens down the ice until...