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...effacement is not a quality of the 93 old Senators over whom Vice President Garner will preside this week. If they do not know it already, the three new Senators-Wyoming's O'Mahoney, Vermont's Gibson, New Mexico's Hatch-whom Mr. Garner will swear in on opening day, will soon learn that silence leads only to obscurity and defeat at the Capitol. Senator after Senator returned to let off accumulated six-months' blasts before their well-loved Washington soundboard...
Pointedly absent was Chancellor Hitler. Night before the Reichstag met he had summoned all the Deputies, made them swear personal fealty to himself and then rushed off to Wilhelmshaven to greet the German battle cruiser Koln on her return from a round-the-world "goodwill cruise...
...comrade Fierro ceased to be a danger to American fascism. Terzani was arrested; there was the prescribed amount of cooked-up evidence, lax investigation of complete facts, desire on the part of the prosecutor for conviction not justice; and also there were loyal Khaki Shirts who were willing to swear that Terzani fired the shot that...
...Price's story. In a New York City hospital, she had already reversed her testimony months before, claiming the rape story was a frame-up. But Orville Gilley, hobo "poet" who had been in the gondola, did corroborate it. Defendant Patterson, nervous and blinking, took the stand to swear that he had never seen any girls on the train. "They told us in jail if we didn't say we done it, they'd kill us,'' he blurted. "They told us they'd give us to the mob outside...
...Henry's bill made Laborites see red and swear purple. It would take discretion in dole cases away from the local boards appointed by Britain's municipal councils, many of which have just been captured by Labor in sweeping gains at the last municipal elections (TIME, Nov. 13). A central government board, staffed by civil servants, would administer a much restricted dole, based on division of the jobless into three classes: 1) "the occasionally unemployed"; 2) "the chronically unemployed"; and 3) "the unemployable destitute" who would get only such relief as is provided in the Poor Laws established...