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Representative Joseph Jefferson Mansfield of Columbus, Tex. is one of the two members of Congress who operate in wheel chairs.* A gentle, mild-mannered oldster of 76, who has been paralyzed since 1921, Congressman Mansfield created a furor in 1932 when he rolled himself down to the rostrum to sign a petition to discharge the Judiciary Committee from further consideration of a proposal to modify the 18th Amendment, and thus bring it to the floor. His was the 145th signature which the petition needed to become effective, a coincidence by which Congressman Mansfield professed to be greatly surprised. Last week...
...have just witnessed a very amazing spectacle on the floor of the House of Representatives. For the first time in my 25 years as a member I have seen a majority leader, with a majority of 4-to-1, rise to appeal to his members to sign a petition to discharge his own Rules Committee from consideration of his legislation. That is definite proof of the statement I have often made: that the Democrats cannot efficiently run the House of Representatives...
Laugh it off? Although Marx Dormoy had used a most discreet tone, his stated revelations were just about the most alarming which an official of the French Republic could make with any semblance of discretion. Significantly the French people last week gave no sign of having been alarmed. "The man in the street," correspondents soon cabled, "seems inclined to laugh the whole thing...
...clarifying the issues involved in a union of churches. The Edinburgh Conference "didn't get much done." More success could be achieved by "saying our prayers together" than by debates around the conference table. Dean Sperry pointed toward the drift toward unity in this country as a hopeful sign of the eventual success of the movement...
Over the $25,000 gateway to Northwestern University's downtown Chicago Campus at Lake Shore Drive and Superior St. is a wrought iron sign. Last June workmen chiseled out of it the word "campus," substituted the word "gates." Then it read Alexander McKinlock Memorial Gates. Few people noticed the change, however, and not until last week did Northwesterners learn that their university's famed McKinlock Campus had been renamed the Chicago Campus...