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...first nonstop transatlantic airplane flight was made by two Britons, Alcock and Whitten-Brown, from Newfoundland to Ireland on June...
...Sparkman is a product of the force which once bound the South to the New Deal-the economic hunger of a have-not region. One of eleven children, Sparkman was born in 1899 near Hartselle, Ala., a small (present pop. 3,429) town in the Tennessee Valley. His father, Whitten Sparkman, sharecropped 160 acres, but much preferred dabbling in politics. While Whitten Sparkman discharged the duties of his occasional political jobs -jailer, deputy sheriff or local judge-his sons chopped cotton. Sometimes the family income dropped below $200 a year, and all of the children's clothes were...
Mississippi Democrat Jamie L. Whitten, subcommittee chairman, summed up: "We are not trying to neglect civil defense ... If it were humanly possible and within financial reach to give complete protection from the atomic bomb . . . that would be the desire of all of us. But . . . you cannot build enough holes in the ground with all the money in the federal...
Anyone who wants to trim Government spending is apt to be branded as a narrow-minded pinchpenny who would starve the poor, paralyze the processes of government and hold back progress. None of these charges would quite fit Mississippi's Representative Jamie L. Whitten, or answer what he had discovered about the living habits of the U.S. Insect-Control Agency, the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. His House appropriations subcommittee had dispatched three congressional investigators to discover how the bureau had spent its last $7,000,000 budget. Sample findings...
...Whitten wanted bugs controlled as much as anyone else, he insisted in a report made public last week, but he wanted the bug-controllers controlled too. "I think," he admonished Assistant Bureau Chief S. A. Rohwer, "that [the bureau] has been caught short." Replied Rohwer: "I agree with...