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...Democratic claque was ready to whoop and holler for anything the President said. Representative J. Will Taylor of Tennessee hoisted his feet on top of the seat in front of him as a gesture of Republican intransigeance. Forty radio technicians were busy with 26 microphones. Out through the House Chamber, out through the U. S., out through the world rang the vibrant voice of Franklin Roosevelt as he began to speak: "Mr. President. Mr. Speaker. Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives...
...Italians!" and finally became so threatening that some had to be driven with bayonets off the steps of the Throne. Ethiopian officers leaped about with such prized weapons as rifles, a favorite routine being to drop to the ground, pretend to fire, then leap up with a whoop. Finally, excited Dedjazmatch (General) Bayenna led a shrieking cavalry charge past the Throne and wheeled about to cry, "Emperor, fear not the politics of the outer world! The Gods are with...
...YOUNG MEN-Oliver La Farge-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). For years the Indians of the Southwest played a limited part in Western fiction, usually remaining in the story just long enough to let out a war whoop and bite the dust. With the novels of Oliver La Farge, braves and squaws seem at last to have been given sensible speaking parts, emerging as complex, poetic, dignified, good-humored men & women deeply conscious of the evil times that have come upon their race. Never loquacious, they speak with an easy informality that has the charm of a good translation of dialect. They...
...California scale- $1 for one store, $2 for the second, $4 for the third and so on in geometric progression up to $500 on the tenth and each additional store. Since California has only 9,000 chain stores compared to 77,000 individual stores, the State Assembly, with a whoop and a halloa, passed the bill 68-to-8. When the bill reached the State Senate, the great oil lobby swung into line, got filling stations exempted. While Sacramento stewed in summer heat, ice companies won exemption. To Sacramento went a handsome young proprietress of a beauty shop chain: stores...
...knows better than Senator Glass that fireworks are not conducive to the drafting of sound and significant legislation. The House, prodded by Chairman Steagall of the Banking & Currency Committee, passed the Eccles measure with a whoop last May. Apparently jealous Congressman Steagall's prime purpose was to embarrass his old rival Senator Glass with a demonstration of the House's enthusiasm for the bill?whether its members understood it or not. The House made a few concessions to country bankers, self-righteously struck out one of the best features?pensions for Federal Reserve Board members to insure their independence?...