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...Failed, because of the filibuster, to pass several important non-partisan bills: the Second Deficiency bill, carrying funds of $93,700,000 necessary to maintain part of the army and other Government organizations; the Public Buildings bill carrying $125,000,000; the Alien Property Claims bill; the Disabled Emergency Officers Retirement bill; the Medicinal Liquor bill. (Although the Administration may be embarrassed by the lack of funds in some departments, it can, by shrewd management, make 95% of the year's appropriations run the Government until the 70th Congress meets in December...
Senator Warren was pleading for his deficiency appropriation bill (see below). Once it seemed likely that a compromise would be reached. Senator Reed of Missouri offered to displace his investigating resolution to allow quick passage of the deficiency bill, the alien property bill and the public buildings bill. Thereupon, Mr. Blease wandered in, half-asleep. He heard the words "unanimous consent." He shouted: "I object." Nobody was going to pull any wool over his eyes...
Three days later, the twelve jurors, with news in their weary eyes, returned to Judge John C. Knox's Federal courtroom in Manhattan. They had decided without much trouble that onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller was guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government. But 70* hours of argument and sleep under lock and key had failed to produce a verdict on onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, who was closely linked with the alien property fraud. The final vote of the jurors was eleven to one for conviction of Mr. Daugherty...
...move a vote on the Boulder Dam bill. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, co-author of the bill, had sat up all night trying to get a vote. The filibusterers were glad to have other Senators relieve them during the day with debate on Muscle Shoals, alien property and Prohibition bills. At 4:30 p. m., after 28½ hours of talk, they achieved their victory. The Senate had previously agreed to take up other business at that hour. If Senator Johnson could have forced a vote before then, his bill would have probably passed...
Playing their final game of the winter on alien ice, the Freshman skaters will today oppose Yale at New Haven. Led by R. L. Summers and C. R. Lakin, who work together in a fast and accurate attack, the 1930 men should provide the Blue with very stiff opposition...