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...rain began to fall, breaking the long heat wave (see p. 9), the body of John Dillinger was lowered into a grave beside that of his mother. Mr. Fillmore intoned: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. . . ." The dirt was shovelled...
When the clerks footed up the totals, Vice President Garner quietly announced: ''On this question the yeas are 31. The nays are 31." Several conservative Senators started to walk from the chamber, sure that they had sidetracked the Borah bill. But Mr. Garner, seizing one of his rare opportunities to be useful, halted them in their tracks by shouting: "The Chair votes 'Yea! and lays the bill before the Senate...
...allegations. The wonder is that nothing more could be found to criticize in the planning, erection, and administration of a new prison, over such a long period of time." And, recalling what Gill has done to the sickly thirty-six, the intelligent citizenry will join in a hearty yea. Whatever the outcome, the Superintendent has shown to those who heed that he is an honest man, an able administrator, and a good fighter--all in all not a follow to be trifled with...
...calculating capital gains and losses; for placing a 35% tax on the undivided earnings of personal holding companies; for raising the penalty tax on consolidated corporate returns from 1% to 2%. When they had talked themselves dry without changing a line in the Committee draft, 390 Representatives voted "yea," seven lone Republicans cried "no." The bill was passed on to the Senate. When weeks or months hence it is returned to the House for concurrence, few Representatives will be able to recognize the bill they approved last week with such tender care...
...starvation, not of four months but of four years. Ridiculed by civic organizations, proved corrupt by a righteous investigator, beaten at the polls by a fiery little Italian-American Major, the Tammany sachems have been voting themselves pensions and appointments as fast as their Board of Estimate could say "Yea." At a single session fortnight ago they put through 471, including a pension for bumbling, prognathous Mayor John P. O'Brien. Out of dusty files they fished up and passed a pension for a onetime Market Commissioner who was removed from office last year. They created a special...