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Against this combination the Great Compromiser, Speaker Sam Rayburn, was helpless. In three riotous days of debate in the House, the farm bloc hammered the Administration to its knees, as the lobbyists sat smugly, warily watching in the galleries, calling for floods of wires from back home in the district of any Representative who weakened, or thought of the war. The bill passed, 205-to-172, with provisions pegging parity at what amounted to 112%, and raising the floor under prices (by Government crop loans) from 85% to 90% of parity...
...army camps, and harum-scarum, boy-crazy young things, talking weird slang in whiny voices, give high-school seniors the go-by and dashing privates the come-on. One night, while her parents are out, Janie (Gwen Anderson) throws a small party for the military, which by midnight achieves riotous and regimental proportions. Coca-Cola gives way to Scotch, soldiers get locked in bathrooms, jeeps get stalled on the lawn, neighbors scream for the police, and the family unseasonably returns. By 2 a.m., however, everything's shipshape and everyone's asleep...
Toledano of the Confederation de Trabajadores Mexicanos, were crying aloud for Siqueiros' release. It seemed a good time to get the riotous artist out of the country...
Widener Reading Room itself presented a strange picture to those who had seen it under less riotous conditions. At several times during the day the rush was overpowering, with waiting registrees obliterating the line of chairs carefully arranged in the lobby. The large group of registrars slowly became acquainted with nine little questions, and as the day advanced got to the point where they could turn out cards in about five minutes...
...also goes to pinch-hitter Jolyon Baker for his playing of the nephew-in-everybody'shair, which he learned in the afternoon before the opening. Except for an occasional drag where clever dialogue fails to make up for lack of action, and the overplaying of a couple of necessarily riotous scenes, "George Washington Slept Here" is a happy beginning for the coming season at Brattle Hall...