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...command over Smith supporters. Political opponents tussled around a microphone. The presiding officer wrecked a table gaveling for order. The stuffy air resounded with hisses and catcalls. When the Minnesota delegation had been instructed to cast its 24 votes for Governor Roosevelt, the disgruntled Smith minority bolted, held a rump session of its own, voted to send a Smith delegation to Chicago anyway. Total Roosevelt strength for the week...
...Loud Congressman Wright Patman of Texas telegraphed hundreds of his colleagues, suggested they appear in Washington Sept. 15, hold a rump meeting of , the House, agitate for relief legislation until President Hoover heeds their demands for a special session...
...Bilbo's husband stayed on the Poplarville pecan plantation while his State went from bad to worse financially. A bull-headed little man of the Blease-Vardaman stripe, Governor Bilbo continued deaf to pleas to call a special session of the Legislature to consider only fiscal legislation. The rump session last April at which no impeachments were promised failed to budge him (TIME, May 4). The State deficit had passed the $3,000,000 mark, was bowling along toward $7,000,000 by the year's end. With tax collections off, only by hand-to-mouth borrowing from...
Protesting that "functionalistic" modern architecture was being excluded from the exhibition, Art Dealer Thomas Mabry and a number of architects held a rump show on West 57th Street of their rejected concrete-and-gaspipe designs. But the committee of the Architectural League had not excluded all examples of functional architecture. There were rows & rows of photographs and designs of such buildings, and chief exhibit of the show was the "Magic House," a complete three-story affair of polished aluminum and glass, designed to take the place of the rows of jerry-built Olde Englysshe cottages for families of modest means...
...months ago, took their seats while Socialists shrilly hooted. Week after week Germany nervously waited for something big to happen. Nothing did. Last week the 107 Fascists, plus 41 Nationalists and a hand ful of Agrarians marched out of the Reichstag in disgust muttering dark threats of forming a "rump parliament" of their own at Weimar, scene of the writing and adoption of Germany's present Constitution, which Fascists hate. Sober Germans did not take the Weimar Parliament threat too seriously...