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...served. It was used to bring about the first vote on Prohibition, two votes on prepayment of the Bonus. Last summer Democrats began to rue their rule, under which the Republican minority combining with a few recalcitrant Democrats could seriously discomfit the Administration by exhuming many an unpleasant legislative monster from its committee grave. Many a poor Congressman who had made promises to his constituents felt he had to sign petitions for bills whose passage he did not in the least want...
...Townsend has been in Washington since mid-December, expects to stay until mid-February when the monster petition being assembled at his headquarters in Long Beach, Calif, should be ready for submission to Congress. A bill embodying the Plan has not yet been drafted. So great is the rivalry among Congressmen for the privilege of introducing such a measure, says Dr. Townsend, that a movement is under way to have it proposed jointly by all favoring Congressmen. Undismayed by the House's new gag rule (see p. 13), California's Representative John Steven McGroarty, who is also...
...hush-hush Opera conclave had three objectives: 1) to combat a lying press campaign against Germany which Herr Hitler believed was being launched abroad; 2) to reassure citizens of the Saar that Germany is the ideal country for them to join; 3) to flabbergast the world with a fresh, monster demonstration of German loyalty to the Realmleader. After Orator Hitler's speech, according to the State's handout, "he was rewarded with spontaneous applause. One might well say that surely treason does not lurk about him. Only loyalty stands watch over...
Duesenbsrg, a Cord product, was back at the Show after a four-year absence with two monster-hooded custom jobs selling...
...dingy, stuccoed Parliament Building. There The Son of Heaven read the proclamation opening the 67th session of the Diet, which promptly recessed. When it finally gets to business at month's end, it will presumably swallow its medicine: Japan's all-time high in defense budgets, a monster achievement of the military clique which Sadao Araki heads...