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Minority Leader Joe Martin, who confidently expects to reorganize the House next Jan. 3 with himself as Speaker, smiled a small smile at these Democrat shenanigans...
...amendment to "draft wealth" through forced loans, was turned down. But most of the debate centred on an irrelevant amendment by Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan. His proposal: to end tax exemption on interest from all future issues of Federal, State and municipal bonds. Senator Brown, a liberal Democrat who is not always a New Dealer, headed a special Senate committee which has been studying the question of tax-exempt bonds all year. Fortnight ago his committee reported, and Brown seized the Excess Profits Tax debate as a good time to bring its conclusions to the Senate...
...been disestablished since 1859), that Communists would not be permitted to collaborate with his Government (Communists were welcomed by Lázaro Cárdenas), that he would get along without the help of Radical Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano (on whose support Cardenas relied). "I am a democrat," announced Avila Camacho. "It is my firm belief that the State should lend a hand to the poor and help improve the conditions of workers, but I am not a socialist. I believe in democracy, liberty and the economic welfare of Mexico...
...year, Administration forces worked like nailers to put up a New Deal slate in the primary. They succeeded. Their two top men, rugged Monrad C. Wallgren (for Senator) and Gubernatorial Nominee Clarence C. Dill, drew two rugged Republican opponents: Gubernatorial Draftee Arthur B. Langlie, aggressive Seattle Mayor, and ex-Democrat Stephen F. Chadwick, American Legionnaire, who is riding the Willkie coattails hard...
...vote: for Republican Brewster 59%; for Democrat Brann 41%; for Republican Sewall 64% ; for Democrat Redman...