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Administration Senators last week threatened a filibuster to keep the Logan-Walter Bill from passing, threatened (if that failed) to tack an anti-lynching amendment on to it, which would force Southern Senators to filibuster. Unless Congress changes its mind and adjourns, the last days of one of the longest sessions in history* may end in a welter of futile harangues among the ghosts of Webster, Clay and Randolph of Roanoke...
...Longest, 354 days in 1917-18. To equal this record, the present session will have to last till...
...centre span (2,800 ft.) is the third longest in the world. Longer: George Washington (3,500) across the Hudson at Manhattan, Golden Gate (4,200) at San Francisco...
...audience thundered applause when Papa Stock entered, lifted his baton to begin a Festival Fanfare which he had written for the jubilee. Next to Stainer's Sevenfold Amen, the Fanfare was probably the longest (ten minutes) ever composed, gave every instrument in the orchestra something to do, finally had even the Schellenbaum (manned by a percussionist) shaking like a hula dancer...
...June 1937 the last total solar eclipse, longest in more than twelve centuries (7 min. 4 sec. at maximum), was mostly wasted on the Pacific Ocean, where science could not study it. Last week a good enough eclipse (more than four minutes) traveled clear across South America, but it also was wasted. Two parties of U. S. scientists who traveled all the way to the shadow belt with their equipment got virtually no results because clouds veiled the blackened sun. Next chance for science : 1941 in central Asia...