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Chief sponsor for this Constitutional amendment is Nebraska's grizzled old Senator George William Norris. His purpose (with which no disinterested person has ever disagreed) is twofold: 1) to eliminate the legislative influence of Senators & Representatives whose constituencies have already repudiated them; 2) to close the 13-month gap between an election in which voters express their sovereign will and the first meeting of a new Congress in which that will is to be executed...
...committee's desperate search for new sources of revenue to bridge this six-or-seven-hundred million dollar gap arose last week a new and striking sentiment in favor of some form...
...Pineville to the effect that there were no mines near his town, that Pineville did not need Mr. Frank's food and that no mass meetings would be tolerated. The party chose to go on despite this cold welcome. Off through the cedar-clothed hills and up past Cumberland Gap, where Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee meet, pushed Mr. Frank and his band. Sheriff Blair rubbed his palms, announced that Cell 13 of the Harlan County jail was happily empty, and that he would "not hesitate to fill it with New York writers...
Since we have had ever-sharp poneils of red barn paint, our co-eds need only rompers and a sense of humor (nearly impossible for a co-ed) to clown. The Clara Bow month on our buxom cornfed lassies is just another Cumberland gap in disguise, and the termination of Grate Garbo lip in a dimple is the ending of an opera in "Pop Goes the Weasel." But most mouths are nothing more than Halloween scares--impossibilities after the age of 12 years...
Tall Dictator Josef Stalin recently sent his smallish, smart handyman Andrey Andreevich Andreev to plug and patch the biggest 1931 gap in Russia's Five Year Plan?the failure of Russian railways to haul their planned quotas (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the new Commissar for Transport showed himself a chip off Stalin's block, plugged and patched ruthlessly right and left...