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...Passed the $1,003,726,000 appropriation bill for independent offices, after increasing the Federal Trade Commission's funds to continue its "Power Trust" inquiry and listening to Nebraska's Norris lecture from a huge wall chart labeled "Spider Web of Wail Street...
Throughout the nation the poignant wail of the debtor beats relentlessly upon political ears. At Logan, Iowa, last week 400 farmers forcibly halted another mortgage foreclosure sale. At Sidney, Neb. farm leaders prepared to march 200,000 irate debtors to the State Capitol at Lincoln and "tear it down" unless they got relief. In Wisconsin, Democratic Governor Schmedeman, after receiving a delegation of farm strikers, issued a proclamation calling upon circuit judges to hold all mortgage foreclosures in abeyance until the Legislature could declare a moratorium. Some judges promised to comply; others claimed they were legally powerless to obey...
...plot"against himself last week Josef Stalin chose his Right-Hand-Man-Of-The-Moment, Comrade Lazar Kaganovitch. Ingenious, this henchman found the perfect metaphor with which to explain away major breaks in the Five-Year Plan and heap all praise upon Dictator Stalin. Keynoted Comrade Kaganovitch: ". . . Why wail over broken eggs when we are trying to make an omelette...
Meanwhile distemper broke out among the widow's cats. Four died, leaving 36 tomcats to snarl, spit, scream and wail from the Dornsife's domicile at night...
...understanding of France. In general, the American conception of French thought and action is erroneous. To your Greenwich Villager, France appears pre-eminently the land of personal liberty where individual expression is unshackled. Even our American expatriates sitting shabby and unkempts at "Le Dome" still boast French tolerance and wail American narrow-minded provincialism...