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...Democrats to oppose Holt. Said he: "I get no pleasure in taking the position I am taking. Every impulse of my carnal nature calls for a vote for him. But every impulse of my intellectual nature demands a vote against his seating." Later Mrs. Holt said she could have "wrung Senator Connally's neck" for talking that way. Rush Holt's white suit got all wrinkled during the first day's orations. When he and his family returned next day, he had on his second best, a brown coat and grey trousers. In that garb he stood...
...subject of utility holding companies nearly everyone had had his say. Franklin Roosevelt had asked for what practically amounted to their abolition. Powermen and investors had wrung their hands in loud anguish. Senator Wheeler had favorably reported the bill. Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council had counseled moderation. Senator Norris had lectured the Senate with giant charts showing the tentacles of the power octopus. Young Legalites Corcoran and Cohen, who drafted the bill, had given their advice privily in the cloakrooms. The whole Senate had enjoyed ten days of debate. Wiseacres sensed that 67 proposed amendments would soon...
...saying, Franklin Roosevelt swung around to the desk above him where Vice President Garner and Speaker Byrns had sat in sphinxlike pomp and handed Speaker Byrns the vetoed Bonus Bill and the original of his speech. While applause rang through the House Speaker Byrns wrung the President's hand, congratulated...
...price of silver, China has had deflation. In vain the Chinese Government imposed a silver export duty. Silver was smuggled out. When silver prices last week sailed toward Heaven, China grew desperate. Finance Minister Kung appealed to all patriotic Chinese to keep their silver at home. Chinese Ambassador Sze wrung his hands on the steps of the State Department in Washington: the U. S. was ruining its one friend in the Orient...
...looks as if the President is due to get a bird: The Blue Eagle is coming home to roost and die. General Johnson's brain child born in a laboring, emotional crusade two years ago is having its neck wrung by Senator Clark's resolution. The Senator is giving the NRA nine more months to live; the President's proposal of two years is too long. Evidently now that the sun is shining, industry is getting more bold in telling the government to keep its hands...