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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt, after taking counsel with his Cabinet, last week picked the six members from his executive branches who will sit with six from Congress on the potent temporary National Economic Committee, better known as the Monopoly Investigation (TIME, June 20). Because the President originally asked for an all-executive committee, because Congress kept control of only one-fifth of the $500,000 expense money it voted, and because of the six Congress members at least one, Representative Eicher of Iowa, is an Administration wheelhorse, the six executives will doubtless dominate the committee's policy. Significantly, not the President...
Titular chairman of the Committee is Wyoming's hardworking Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, whose efforts to modernize the anti-trust laws endeared him to Franklin Roosevelt (and earned him sufferance for fighting the President's Supreme Court plan). Beside Chairman O'Mahoney will sit his antimonopolist colleague, Senator Borah of Idaho, and Utah's colorless, querulous old Senator King. The House members, besides Mr. Eicher, are fiery Hatton Sumners of Texas, sophisticated Brazilla Carroll Reece of Tennessee (Republican...
FURTHERMORE, AS I TESTIFIED AT THE TRIAL, THE SIT-INS WERE PROFESSIONAL MODELS...
Since 1933 life has become progressively more intolerable for Jews in German provinces. In many small towns no separate schools are provided for Jewish children, who are forced to sit on back benches, to be beaten up by little "Aryans," to be addressed as "Du Jude" by the teachers. Since the beginning of the Hitler regime, thousands of Jews have moved to Berlin, hoping to escape notice there, believing that the presence of diplomats and foreign correspondents in the capital would prevent too drastic persecution by the Nazi Government. For the last two years anti-Jewish activity has, in fact...
Because of this public deafness, contemporary composers have been in danger of turning into mutes. To combat this deafness and muteness, societies of intrepid and hard-eared listeners have been formed, who sit through concerts of contemporary music almost without flinching. Chief among these devoted bands is the International Society for Contemporary Music, which last week opened its 16th annual festival in London...