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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge, the Representatives curtly dismissed an appropriation of $1,050,000,000 suggested by the Workers Alliance, of $1,000,000,000 by C. I. O., of $915,000,000 by Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, representing the U. S. Conference of Mayors. Without even taking a record vote on the President's figure, they lopped off $150,000,000, set their own figure...
Those guns could be supplied only from abroad. At week's end the brightest spot on the Loyalist horizon was Paris. There the executive committee of Premier Edouard Daladier's Radical Socialist Party-without whose support he cannot remain in power-passed with only one dissenting vote a resolution asking a curb on Italian aid for Generalissimo Franco. The French General Staff has long viewed with misgivings the establishment of a Fascist power on France's southern frontier. There were signs that to "neutralize' Italian aid to Franco the French might unseal the Spanish frontier...
...students required to take English A will no longer be required to take an extra course for the degree. Any student, however, who wishes to broaden his first year's program by taking a fifth course may do so, under the terms of the recent faculty vote, without payment of an additional course...
...organizing the Senate the Administration might have had trouble this year for in the new Senate "moderate" (economy-minded) Democrats outnumber New Dealers. For this reason Mississippi's Pat Harrison might have ousted Kentucky's Barkley, the Majority Leader who beat him out by one vote in 1937 with Franklin Roosevelt's aid. Instead, Senator Harrison chose last week not to run for Leader this year: he did not want the job of spokesman for the Administration. "Dear Alben" was re-elected by acclamation and Illinois' elegant, whiskery old James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis was persuaded...
Basic doctrines of European Socialism up until a few years ago were internationalism, disarmament, pacifism. Last week a vote at the Socialist Party Congress of France at Montrouge, suburb of Paris, showed dramatically how the rise of European dictatorships has changed those doctrines...