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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A Finance Committee vacancy occurred when Senator Walter Evans Edge resigned to become Ambassador to France. Senator La Follette applied for the place, supported by his Insurgent colleagues. The Regular Republicans controlling the committee sought to head him off by inducing West Virginia's Senator Goff to make application for...
(TIME, Jan. 6 et seq.), when some 200 Congressmen on the floor suddenly threw their heads back, clapped their knees, laughed uproariously. In silence they had heard the Coast Guard accused of "bloody murder." Loud had been their applause when speakers defended the service and its law-enforcing methods. But...
Dr. Moton sat down, apparently satisfied with the explanation. But other Negroes throughout the land were not satisfied. Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, editor of The Crisis, challenged General Smuts to a debate on black and white relations in Africa. Field Secretary William Pickens of the National Association for...
The Coalition rallied to beat down a regular Republican effort to bulge the silk tariff. Defeat of this item gave them an especial delight because its chief advocate was Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut whose connection, either naive or bold, with the tariff lobby caused commotion last autumn (TIME, Oct...
At the Bottom is a new translation by William L. Laurence, Russian:born U. S. newsman (New York World) of Maxim Gorki's Na Due (usually called The Lower Depths). Directed by Leo Bulgakov, persistent exponent of Russian drama in the U. S., onetime member of the Moscow Art...