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...length of time at the Capitol while North Dakota's Senator Nye challenged his eligibility. The charge: more than $600,000 was spent to elect the ticket on which Mr. Davis ran. The Senate's prompt vote (58-0-27) to seat Mr. Davis gave Pennsylvania its full elected Senate representation for the first time in nearly four years. As Senator Davis took his seat, he felt he had achieved a precedent by transferring directly out of the Cabinet into the Senate...
...drought relief legislation.* Though the President's drought agents had recommended a $60,000,000 measure last October, the Department of Agriculture later whittled this estimate down to $25,000,000. Over Presidential protest the Senate Committee on Agriculture unanimously approved a bill to loan farmers the full $60,000,000 not only for feed and seed but also for food. Nor could President Hoover count on support from Senate Democrats on this issue because their leader, Arkansas Senator Robinson, dropping harmony, loudly announced for the larger figure. Declared he: "Who said $25,000,000 was enough? Some...
...week for meals. This will entitle them to any ten meals they choose. For the student who takes fourteen meals in the House the charge will be $8.50 a week. The maximum charge for board will be $10.50 a week, which entitles a student to the full number of twenty-one meals. Individual meals are at the rate of forty cents for breakfast, sixty cents for lunch, and eighty cents for dinner. Arrangements will be made for a la carte service in addition, if there appears to be a sufficient demand...
...great service to this community has been rendered by Mr. Percy H. Johnston, president of the Chemical Bank and Trust Co. of New York, who is responsible for the reopening of the Security Bank," read full-page advertisements in Louisville papers last week. Said Banker Johnston: "The people of Kentucky have been 'shellshocked' by recent bank failures, are 'over-appreciative...
...mutter, "Oh, boy! That's made to order!" The trial of a "lovely society heiress" for the murder of a "noted architect," with a "beautiful nightclub dancer" as star witness for the prosecution would be just such a story. Last week Hearst's New York American was full of it. But the story was literally made to order-an ingenious new circulation stunt...