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Given enough public support, there is still hope that, before next March, some modification of the Ruml Plan will finally become law. One pay-as-you-go bill has already been introduced in the House by Ways & Means Committeeman Donald H. McLean (Rep., N.J.). In the Senate Finance Committee, Republican members Vandenberg and Taft and Democrats Byrd and Chairman George all favor some form of pay-as-you-go. Last week never-say-die Beardsley Ruml was once again campaigning: "Nothing can be gained," cried portly, ebullient Mr. Ruml, "by arguing that people ought to have saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Worse Than Prohibition | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--A thorough Congressional airing of Rep. Melvin Maas' charges that the Navy is losing the war in the Pacific and conceals the truth from the public, appeared to be in taking shape tonight as the Navy maintained stoney silence...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/14/1942 | See Source »

...John Tabor once roared so loud in wrath at the New Deal that he jarred free the clogged eardrum of Rep. Leonard Schultz, restoring his hearing (Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Dollars Will Do It | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...anybody's guess, and guess everybody did. Buenos Aires newspapers sarcastically guessed that the German sub-commander had mistaken the sky-blue-&-white markings of nonbelligerent Argentina for the medium-blue-&-white markings of belligerent Honduras, that he had failed to perceive 4-ft.-high letters reading REP. ARGENTINA. Best guess was that Germany and Argentina would repeat the routine following the 1940 torpedoing of the Argentine merchantman Uruguay off the Spanish coast: Argentina protested; Germany's reply was accepted; neither was ever published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Circumstantial Evidence | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Early Senatorial candidates: Reserve Captain Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts, now on "tour of duty" with the Army, who will conduct his autumn campaign in uniform; Lieut. Colonel Charles R. Dawley (Rep., Montana), now in Australia, who announced his candidacy for Senator James E. Murray's seat. Meanwhile Garfield, NJ. was in a turmoil. Mayor John M. Gabriel, a second lieutenant at Fort Eustis, Va., is trying to run the town by airmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Soldiers to Congress? | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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