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...persuaded to write out his story again for a publisher to print. This version was not exactly like the first one; it was called Alice in Wonderland, and it contained a great many incidents which had been omitted in the other, such as the mad tea-party, the caucus race, the Cheshire Cat's technique of vanishing, and the two resplendent lyrics which began " 'Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail . . ." and " 'Tis the voice of a lobster; I heard him declare...
...parade of 2,000 men and women formed one morning last week below Capitol Hill and plodded grimly up it. Defying policemen, swarming into the House Office Building, they engulfed the caucus room where some Congressmen were about to hold a hearing on a bill. Neither anarchists nor Anti-Salooners, these lobbyists were white-collar workers in the Government?meek, long-suffering driven to desperation (they said) by "genteel poverty " They told stories of death by starvation, of "coffin and graveyard clubs, of collections for funerals?by-products of life on $1,200 per year. The House Civil Service Committee...
Jocularly Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin assured a huge caucus of women at London, last week, that Parliament will shortly enact the long awaited bill extending suffrage downward from women over 30 to young women who have topped 21 (TIME, Feb. 20). Said the Prime Minister, playfully indicating Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks who will pilot the bill: "He is the Joshua who shall lead you into the promised land...
...Pugnacious sympathizers of Sanatzia armed themselves with horsewhips and broke up many an opposition caucus...
...Administration's proposed "Big Navy" program having been fixed at some $1,500,000,000, to be spread over the next five to nine years and to include 74 ships plus men, aircraft and maintenance (TIME, Feb. 20), the Naval Affairs Committee of the House last week held caucus for Irate Citizens. Most of the talk focused on the ship program which, taken separately, totaled some...