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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main obstacle to these amendments is the undying Townsend Plan. Last week smart Bob Doughton and his committee figured out a way to silence Townsendites for this session, hotspot some 60 Republican Congressmen (including Minority Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts) who traded intimations of support for Townsend votes last year. Without reading the latest Townsend Bill, Doughton & Co. got the House Rules Committee to push it onto the floor this week, ban all amendments and force a roll-call vote. "I think you fellows just took this monkey off your backs," joshed Rulesman Martin Dies of Texas. Massachusetts' Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Tiddly Week | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Thus last week the watchful reporters who cover Pennsylvania's Legislature voted their conviction that Democrat Homer S. Brown of Pittsburgh's "Hill" area has plenty of ability. What made the vote news: Homer Brown is a Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Ablest | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Moseley, who urged that the right to vote and hold office be denied American Jews affiliating themselves with organized word Jewry, earlier expressed suspicion of drinking water provided by the committee, saying that he does not trust the group "too far" and adding that previous threats on his life have made him extremely cautious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...while band of equal ability. Why does a man have to go to the Supreme Court to he allowed to pay for his training as a lawyer? Why do political partics allow vestiges of Jim Crowism to hang on within then? We may be equalitarian, but Negroes can't vote in many parts of the country; we may be democratic, but how many hotels allow colored guests; we may be free, but why do most talented Negro artists live in virtual poverty? Why--why --why--over and over again the words to the song din that question into the cars...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...Hartford, Conn., the House of Representatives took a vote on confirming seven nominations. When the ballot box was opened, among the ballots were found one penny, one stewed prune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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