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Senate Succumbs, Although the five Blum bills bringing in the 40-hour week and yielding to other French strikers' demands caused Senators to sputter wrathfully when they passed the Chamber (TIME, June 22), last week all five passed the Senate by large majorities and were deemed sure to be signed by President Lebrun...
...city vice investigations commonly rocket up in a splatter of front-page headlines, sputter out on back pages with a few inconsequential arrests and vague generalities which leave decent citizens no better informed about local conditions than they were before. Last week in Manhattan a racket investigation launched by Governor Lehman provided New Yorkers with an astonishingly detailed exposition of the personnel and workings of organized prostitution...
Again & again wily Senator Black would trip Witness Hopson up, cause him to fall headlong into puddles of contradiction. Mr. Hopson would flush, sputter, say he had not understood the question. Before the end of his first day's examination, Mr. Hopson made a significant answer to a significant question: "I don't recall. You have...
...thought differently was Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett. The portly, pious Herbert Hoover of Canada uprose in the House of Commons to sputter: "There is no intention that this country should offer its surplus of grain at fire-sale prices or throw its surplus on the markets of the world so long as this Government exists." But recognizing that his belated New Dealish Government may go out of existence at the general election next autumn, Prime Minister Bennett added: ''It may well be that other policies may prevail, but they will prevail at the expense of this country...
After tea and compliments Young Chang ordered his U. S. pilot to fly him to Yunnanfu. Half an hour later he was soaring over Chinese Communist troops, too high and too swift to be pinged by their poor marksmanship. Suddenly the Boeing began to sputter and Chang's heart was in his mouth. If his plane were forced down and they caught him, the Young Marshal could count on being tortured carefully to death. As his U. S. pilot put his ship prayerfully into a long glide, bullets came pinging close, but on she skimmed. Abruptly she resumed...