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Senator-elect Gould is entitled to take his seat on Dec. 6 in the 69th Congress, and continue to serve through the 70th Congress. Thus, the slim Republican control Of the next Senate is still safe. However, Mr. Redman threatens to fight to unseat Mr. Gould, while at the same time, the Democrats are contesting the seats of Senators-elect Vare of Penn sylvania and Smith of Illinois...
Obviously, few of these problems can be solved in the short winter session of the 69th Congress, called by many a lame duck session. The 70th Congress, with a fresh mandate from the people, is theoretically better qualified to act. But the 70th Congress will not convene until December, 1927, unless President Coolidge calls a special session. He will not do so unless coerced...
...fortnight ago, word leaked out that Senator Robert M. LaFollette and the insurgent Republicans are planning a filibuster against appropriation bills in the 69th Congress in order to force a special session of the 70th. Last week Senator-elect Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa added his booming voice to the movement. Said he: "Since about a million farmers have lost their property or their homes during the last six years, and the vast majority of them are now facing disaster, the most speedy and drastic action is demanded. Anybody who thinks this battle can be won by whistling 'Yankee...
Last week Associate Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, the only Jew who ever sat in the Supreme Court, celebrated his 70th birthday. The New York Jewish Tribune congratulated him as "the epitome of all that is finest in Americanism and Judaism...
...faces in the 70th Senate will...