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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ohio's Vic Donahey has lately boasted that he will vote against the Pope-McGill Farm Bill pending in the Senate on the ground that he cannot understand it. This was practically the only complaint not offered by various rebellious members in the House last week, as Chairman Marvin Jones of the Agriculture Committee maneuvered his 86-page Farm Bill toward the first vote taken in either House on a part of the President's program for the special session...
...public-spirited Chemist William Jay Schieffelin, and such P. R. enthusiasts as Liberal Lawyer Morris Ernst remained stubbornly faithful to their device. They pointed out that with experienced counters Cincinnati had cut its counting time to a week and Cleveland to three days. If the city would authorize the voting machines for which Tammany's late board of estimate refused to appropriate $2,000.000. they claimed that P. R. ballots might be disposed of in one day. That Tammany was as overrepresented as it seemed, they also denied, recalling that two years ago the Democrats elected...
...that P. R.'s 26 councilmen, who will enjoy more power to originate legislation than the old board of aldermen, were a far fresher and more prepossessing crew than the aldermen they will replace. Council President Newbold Morris, a highly respectable Wall Street lawyer of 35 whose tie vote will belong to Mayor LaGuardia and Fusion, can look down over his gavel at two sturdy old revolutionaries. Russian-born Baruch Charney Vladeck, last week slated to be the council's minority leader, is now general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward and belongs to the new American Labor...
...Belgium since 1884. Brussels political experts figure he has a majority of 70 in the Chamber. In effect M. Janson simply reformed the Cabinet of nonparty Economist Professor Paul van Zeeland (TIME, Nov. 1), expected by many last week to return as Premier after the courts confirm a Parliamentary vote which recently cleared him of charges in connection with a scandal at the National Bank of Belgium (TiME, Sept. 20 et ante). In his program speech last week, Premier Janson promised to continue the van Zeeland policy of keeping down prices and therefore the cost of living. He promised...
...publicity for the forthcoming Goldwyn Follies, in which McCarthy will appear, Samuel Goldwyn's sly Pressagent Jock Lawrence sent a form-letter to United Artist distributors asking that they vote for the dummy as TIME'S Man-of-the-Year...