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Last week came time for the annual first act. But Playwright Roosevelt added a curtain-raiser to Act I, in which he himself appeared in a new role-that of a penny-squeezing pinchfist. Scrimper Roosevelt let it be known he was wearing blue pencils to the stub, slashing $1,000,000,000 of proposed expenditures from the budget he will present in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: New Twist | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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