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...President to address a message to a Congressional conference committee is unconventional, if not utterly unprecedented. Precedents mean nothing to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. To Pat Harrison and Bob Doughton, chairmen respectively of Senate Finance and House Ways & Means Committees, members of which were starting the ticklish job of compromising between the two tax bills passed by their respective chambers, he dispatched a 1,000-word letter, recommending in effect that the conference adopt the House bill which, unlike the Senate's, retains at least a portion of the Administration's pet undistributed profits and capital gains tax. Excerpt...
...troops bravely assaulted the heavy walls of Yihsien from three sides, and wave after wave broke, receded under withering Japanese machine-gun fire. The defenders' ammunition soon began to run low. Japanese planes then started dropping ammunition and food into Yihsien. With Chinese batteries blazing away this was ticklish work. Much of what the Japanese dropped fell outside the walls, helped the Chinese attackers...
...after hearing Convict Mooney, the Assembly went on record 41-10-29 as favoring a pardon, a few hours later the Senate defeated the motion almost unanimously and the chance that Governor Merriam might be influenced thereby seemed very slim indeed. Eager to keep his hands off the whole ticklish business. Governor Merriam last year announced he would not consider pardoning Convict Mooney until his efforts to prove his innocence legally had been finally ruled on in Court. Last year, the Supreme Court refused to review the case on the ground that Convict Mooney had not yet "exhausted every resource...
...into sixty minutes of hilarious entertainment, thanks chiefly to the dialogue and the capable acting of Miss Dunne and her four-legged friend. "Skippy," who appears more at home before the camera than when he played in "The Thin Man" and its sequel, surpasses himself and brings up the ticklish question of whether a quadruped is eligible for the Academy Award...
...duck over baited fields near Charleston, South Carolina, Publisher Nelson Doubleday and friends were fined $450, their ducks sent to a charitable institution. Hunting with his brother Winthrop near Kingsville, Tex., Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was taken ill. Said his doctors: "It is a ticklish point and strictly a matter of opinion whether it is pneumonia." As Pennsylvania's deer-hunting season opened, Vice President John Nance Garner posed for photographers with a shotgun, set forth with nine Senators, shot down a 120-pound four-point buck, hoisted the carcass over his shoulders, posed...