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...must dissent most emphatically from the view taken by a correspondent whose letter you publish in your issue of Feb. 5, that artists who refuse to sing without the stipulated compensation are "in the banking business" or do anything they need apologize...
...Judiciary Committee's big chamber lacked room for the Birth Controllers. So all paraded to the huge marble caucus room in the House Office Building. News photographers prepared to take pictures. Comely Mrs. Hepburn, like her actress daughter, objected. Her dissent provoked a vote by the Committee: for photographs, eight; against, three. Mrs. Hepburn disappeared during the picture taking...
...interesting to note in this connection how this show of popular sentiment has quelled the roar of Congressional dissent which greeted the budget message when it first appeared. With the political foresight of glowworms, the Republicans were prepared to leap gleefully on Mr. Roosevelt and see him overwhelmed by public disapproval of his monstrous expenditures, whil they posed grandiloquently as the saviors of their country or at least of their country's credit. Mr. Snell announced that he was so shocked that he did not expect to recover for "several days." The several days have passed and Mr. Snell...
With longer and better discussions of gold-standard economics separating his flambuoyant portraits of Wall Street personalities, Father Coughlin has again rolled a sonorous hour's speech along the national networks. Again the bankers, professors, senators, braintrusters, labor leaders, and even cardinals can read it with detached approval or dissent, not a little bored by the purely popular reactions to the scientific, unemotional experiments of the administration...
...many in the House were less willing to put President Roosevelt above the lawmaking power of Congress. Gibed Republican Leader Snell: "We'd better abolish Congress and go home." So loud grew the cries of dissent that Speaker Garner, a good retreater, decided to put his dictatorship plan over until the next session...