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...must vote to break a tie and may vote whenever else he chooses. As leader of the House majority he picks the legislation he wants brought up. Members speak only at his grace. During the last six days of a session his power to recognize a motion to suspend the rules makes him an absolute dictator of House procedure...
...supplied technical advice, kept modestly out of the spotlight. Last week Professor Moley boned up on War Debts before accompanying the President-elect to the White House. Before the 31st and 32nd Presidents was this international situation: Britain. France, Belgium and Czechoslovakia had formally asked the U. S. to suspend $118,436,438 in debt payments due Dec. 15 and simultaneously to authorize a reconsideration of their total $8,443,000,000 War debt principal. Because he was going out of office President Hoover called his successor to Washington to help formulate a continuing national policy. Governor Roosevelt...
...came crashing back into the headlines just as everyone expected them to do once the election was over. On Dec. 15 Britain is scheduled to pay the U. S. $30,000.000 on debt principal, $65,550.000 on interest; France, $19,261,438 on interest. Only Congress has authority to suspend interest payments, continue the Hoover Moratorium for another year...
...American Derby and the Arlington Park Classic, both on Morton L. Schwartz's Gusto, and the Spinaway Stakes with Easy Day. Jockey Coucci, more than Mills, is noted for spectacular finishes. Sometimes they are too spectacular, like one last fortnight which caused Laurel, Md. officials to suspend him for "taking a tow"-grabbing the saddlecloth of a horse going past him. Last week Jockey Coucci was reinstated. He quickly set about improving his percentage of winners-19 for the season to Mills's 22-by bringing Mrs. Isabelle Dodge Sloan's Snap Back home...
...defense that they only wish to do in Manchuria the civilizing work which Britain accomplished in Egypt. Historically they claim they also are following the examples in other parts of the world, of the United States, France, and other powers. . . . Public opinion in this country will be wise to suspend judgment. The same rules cannot always be applied to every case...