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...last week Speaker-presumptive Garner shuffled and shifted committee lists in an effort to work out a scheme that the whole party could support at its caucus Dec. 5. What pointed up the bargaining politically was the fact that patronage worth $2,000,000 per year in wages for constituents was at stake...
...sole Laborite of Cabinet rank not to lose his Parliamentary seat in the election landslide. No Laborite looks to bumbling "Old George" as the Party's real leader, but there was no one else who could be made its floor leader in the House last week. Meeting in caucus outside the House, Laborites re-elected as Party Leader "Uncle Arthur" Henderson who has lost his seat. For the time being Uncle Arthur is in the same boat as "Handsome Adolf" Hitler, leader of the German Opposition who cannot enter the Reichstag because he is an Austrian...
...Herbert Samuel, who led an equally large bloc of Liberals to Scot MacDonald, was rewarded last week with the Home Office. His Liberal bloc met in caucus during the week, elected him leader of what hereafter will be the Liberal Party. David Lloyd George, from whom all but four Liberal M. P.'s? have bolted, sourly announced on the eve of Leader Sir Herbert's election that he, Mr. Lloyd George, was "not a candidate...
...wait a long time to collect their foreign loans. But Senators like WilHam Edgar Borah of Idaho and Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas were quick to catch up the President when they thought they detected a cancellationist note in his Super Plan as read to them at the caucus. Therefore surprise was occasioned last week when the White House announced that when the year's moratorium in intergovernmental debts expires, the United States will not insist that European payments be resumed, except on the basis of the capacity of the debtor nations to pay. In return...
...director of War Finance Corp. and to whom hurried calls to the White House were not new, and Secretary Mellon and Undersecretary Mills?President Hoover sat at a small desk. In front of him were 36 comfortable chairs. In the chairs were seated his "little Congress," actually a coalition caucus, since those members of the Opposition were present who could carry out a joint program in Congress if they wanted to. The President arose and read to them his Super Plan for restoring U. S. business confidence...