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...idea of this monumental swap had been germinating in congressional brains ever since 1935 when New York's ubiquitous Congressman Sol Bloom, deep in plans for his 1937 Constitution sesquicentennial celebration, discovered that Washington's Government buildings contained not a single painting commemorating the Constitution's signing.* Dismayed, Congressman Bloom got his friend, famed Painter and magazine-cover Artist Howard Chandler Christy, a $30,000 commission to paint the subject...
Noteworthy fact about the swap: in their new setting in the Supreme Court room, Carpenter's emancipators looked directly across the room at the bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who handed down the anti-Negro Dred Scott decision...
...season's beginning (Aug.1), Commodity Credit Corp. was the world's biggest cotton owner ever. Of its 6,126,482 bales, 4,778,321 are from the 1937 crop, have now cost the Government (including carrying charges) 12.2? a Ib. Now CCC can swap part of these holdings for hard cash. Besides a small profit, the corporation will also get the last laugh on the experts who in 1940 predicted the U.S. would end by burning its cotton hoard...
...Approve his bases-for-destroyers swap...
...transatlantic telephone. He had one good talking point on his side. Rumanians were once international capitalists too, had $50,000,000 of investments and other balances in the U. S., frozen (since Oct. 10) by Roosevelt decree. Hinting that the U. S. State Department might consent to a legitimate swap, Colonel Behn got Governor Constantinescu to talk it over with Premier General Antonescu...