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Before the House stretched a week's brass-knuckle debate. Until the last chap ter, the Senate's had been a different and duller story. For three stodgy weeks that body had shifted uneasily about in the un accustomed formal garments of full-dress debate. But last week the Senate, almost to a man, happily shucked its tight collar, stripped off the white gloves. The nodding press gallery awoke, and in five days of catch-as-catch-can heckling the Senate finished its task, passed the Pittman Bill after 26 days and 1,000,000 words...
...late entries was Betsy Waffie of Charlestown, who plans to "put the Waffie on the Harvard gridiron." The seventeen-year-old world's champion batonnetter came dressed in a royal blue marching uniform, and carrying her pet one pound and ten ounce brass baton...
...When the Neutrality Act was first passed] there would have been no difference between the export of cotton and the export of gun cotton. Today there is. Before 1935 there would have been no difference between the shipment of brass tubing in piece form and brass tubing in shell form. Today there...
...brass industry, rolling mills near Waterbury, Conn., Rome, N. Y., in Baltimore and in Detroit, for the first time since World War I worked three shifts a day. Yet production was limited because only a few U. S. brass rolling mills are of the continuous (mechanized assembly line) type, and even such mills were held down to the pace of old-fashioned brass foundries integrated with them. Meanwhile, war orders piled up at the same time as ordinary post-Labor Day orders from the auto companies, who want prompt delivery and plenty of it. This brass bottleneck caused copper sales...
...observers gave the Borah anti-repeal forces a minimum of 25 men, a maximum of 40. Therefore Jimmy Byrnes knew he had the most important thing-the votes-in the bag. But well he knew that only such a magnificent optimist as Franklin Roosevelt could seriously believe that 435 brass-tongued, leather-lunged Congressmen would meekly report to Washington, legislate one bill, then go quietly home in a time of crisis. Byrnes said nothing, silently agreed with Bennett Clark that the Congress, once called, would stay for the duration of World...