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Administration leaders had sought to detach the rider and obtain separate votes on it and the main measure. Their failure presages a floor clash between them and backers of Rep. Wesley E. Disney, D., Okia., sponsor of the amendment, who calls it the first wedge in a drive against "government by directive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 3/4/1943 | See Source »

...Ways and Means Committee Wesley E. Disney, Oklahoma's grey, square-jawed reactionary Democrat, hurried a bill to repeal the President's $25,000 salary limit. Wary of a veto, Disney made his bill a rider on the Administration's urgent legislation raising the statutory limit of the national debt to $210,000,000,000. Franklin Roosevelt would have to sign that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Turnabout | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...four years Thurman Wesley Arnold (ex-Yale law professor, former mayor of Laramie, Wyo.) had ridden herd on trusts like a paunchy cowboy. He had corralled more monopolies, obtained more indictments of corporations and labor unions than any other man in history. Last week his trust-busting rodeo was over. To the Senate the President sent his nomination to be an associate justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Roundup | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...world's first public hospital solely for intensive treatment of social diseases was dedicated in Chicago's rain and cold last week by Vice President Henry Agard Wallace. The new Chicago Venereal Disease Hospital is the old, reconditioned Wesley Memorial Hospital on South Dearborn Street. Those who wondered how such an institution could get a clientele were told that most of the patients will be prostitutes (who may come voluntarily or by commitment by the Women's Court). But the hospital's services (specialty: quick treatment for early syphilis and gonorrhea) will be free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: First | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Married. Cinemactress Arline Judge, 30; and R.A.F. Captain James Ramage Addams, 38; she for the third time, he for the second; in Montecito, Calif. Her first was Cinedirector Wesley Ruggles, her second Tinplate Heir Dan Topping (now the husband of Skater Sonja Henie). One wedding present: just before the ceremony, a process server handed her a summons in a $2,100 suit for back rent and legal fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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