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Indians, apart from their groveling submission to princely rajas and maharajas in the Native States, and apart from their tepid interest in the rubber-stamp legislative bodies in British India, have a nationwide political organization which they call the "Indian National Congress," and Mahatma Gandhi is its Prophet. In case it should ever be argued that this native Congress does not represent any considerable number of the Indian people, Mr. Gandhi has secured the attendance of some 60,000 Congressmen at each normal meeting. They met last week in a swiftly-constructed bamboo and tent city near the village...
...exactly under fire. The House was offered a choice of voting either for or against His Majesty's "irrevocable decision." It was ratified by a vote of 403-to-5 in the Commons and passed without dissent in the Lords. Dominion Parliaments hastened to concur by rubber-stamp landslides, all excepting the Irish Free State (see p. 18). Finally Parliament so legislated that Prince Edward and his heirs shall be free to marry whom they please without having first to obtain the King's consent as ordinary members of the Royal Family must do, further that neither Prince...
...within the State. Early this month Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins quietly destroyed the State's last hold on Federal relief funds by appointing Frank Peterman, a bitter anti-Longster, to administer Louisiana relief. Last week Senator Long piped his State legislators to Baton Rouge, commanded them to rubber-stamp bills empowering his State agencies to seize and administer all Federal relief and PWA monies sent into the State, clap Frank Peterman into jail if he did not knuckle under. "This," commented an anti-Long legislator, "is a declaration of war against the United States...
...Franklin Roosevelt, the Speaker's death meant more than the loss of a public servant. It meant the loss of the servant of the New Deal who had the job of keeping a rubber-stamp Congress stamping confirmation on the New Deal's desires. Some questioned the efficiency but none the loyalty of Representative Rainey as stamp handler. These pointed out that he had been given a more stamp-like Congress than any Speaker in recent years and yet he had not prevented the overriding of the President's Veterans veto...
Democrats as well as Republicans knew precisely what Speaker Rainey meant by "left at home." The Hundred Day special session of Congress which ended last June was a rubber-stamp affair which made a stirring record for President Roosevelt but added little glory to individual Representatives. The coming session was the one that most voters would have firmly in mind when they march to the polls next November to choose the 74th Congress. Last week each & every Representative was determined to make a Capitol record before summer which, by hook or crook, would return him to his present seat...