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...arms was called on to exert his authority, marshaled them into a queue which gradually wound half way around the chamber. So many members were in so much of a hurry to put their names on the petition that Speaker Bankhead, after calling hopelessly for order, was forced to suspend regular business. Whenever a Southerner or a Republican joined the line, supporters of the bill cheered. Forty minutes after the session opened, Mrs. Norton had 140 names on her list. Ten minutes later it had grown...
...sent a note to Japan affirming that salmon spawned in the U. S. and protected by the Bureau of Fisheries were U. S. property, waited for an answer. Last week it came in satisfactory form. In what amounted to a complete capitulation, Japan promised to suspend her "survey," issue no licenses for salmon fishing in the area, "take measures" to halt any violators of the agreement...
...would continue the column as a broker's tipsheet. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal took over Investment News's 6,000 subscriptions, editorialized: "The business recession, rising costs and taxes upon gross -problems with which all business men are familiar-contributed to the final decision to suspend. More will be heard from this ghastly combination...
...April issue of Picture, due on newsstands last week, did not appear. Of the Comus' crew of monthly picture magazines which have appeared in the last two years, it was the first important one to suspend publication. Picture, brought out in December (TIME, Dec. 27), was rather effectively elbowed out of the way early in January by lowbrowed Click. Now Picture Publisher J. Stirling Getchell, one of the first to be bitten by the picture magazine bug, can again concentrate full efforts on his big advertising agency...
Joseph A. Langone, Boston undertaker, who last year cast the crucial ballot in the senate's 21-19 decision to send the bill to Governor Hurley, again voted for the abolishment of the Oath law, An Attempt to suspend the rules and prevent the third reading failed...