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...Washington Rep. Dewey Short (Missouri, R.), squawked that the Federal Theatre Project produced plays with "suggestive or salacious" titles, cited as samples of "vulgar and villainous activities which the people of the U. S. must be taxed for" : The Bishop Misbehaves, Companion-mate Maggie, Just a Love Nest, The King and the Chorus Girl, Lend Me Your Husband, Old Captain Romeo's Four Wives, Up in Mabel's Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Show Business: May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Calling the oath law "nuisance legislation," Rep, Ralph Clampit rallied the repealist forces on the floor and cried: "The real trouble with the law is that the freedom of teachers has been shackled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHERS OATH REPEAL VOTED DOWN IN HOUSE | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

Supporters of the law which requires teachers to swear allegiance to the Constitution were led by Reps. Sawyer and McCready. They were abetted by Rep. Wenzler of Boston, often called "the clown of the legislature," who roared: "Some of these professors when they get to 65 or 70--their brains are cracked." Wenzler himself is almost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHERS OATH REPEAL VOTED DOWN IN HOUSE | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

...Committee, headed by Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, D., Va., and heavily Democratic, fixed the projected appropriation at $725,000,000, specified that it must be apportioned over the full five months ahead, and moved to void Mr. Roosevelt's recent order blanketing 33,000 in Works Progress Administration personnel under civil service by directing that none of the new appropriation be used to pay salaries of those so blanketed...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

Interim Senator Alexander Grant Barry (Rep.) from Oregon spent about as much money getting elected as he will be paid for serving ($1,511.12, plus $1,818 for five clerks' salaries and $18.75 for stationery). A Portland lawyer and one-time State Liquor Commissioner, Senator Barry worries more about his girth than a Senator ought to. His successor, full-time Senator Rufus C. Holman, will be the fourth Senator in the seat within eleven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In-Between Senators | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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