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...birth) when word was brought to him that Congress had adjourned. Happy, he turned out the light and went to sleep conscious that he had been blessed as few presidents are: he had 1) got Congress to pass most of the laws he wanted, and 2) got rid of Congress-not in time for him to attend Franklin Jr.'s graduation from Groton next day, but at least before Congress got completely out of control...
...last week. By a 31,500-ballot majority John Clinton Porter was ousted for Frank Lawrence Shaw. In office since 1929, Mayor Porter won a recall election last year because his opposition consisted of a scattered field of nonentities. But many a Los Angeles citizen was itching to get rid of him because : 1) as a Dry, he had '"disgraced" his city by refusing to drink a wine toast to the U. S. President while junketing in France with other U. S. mayors two years ago (TIME, June 1, 1931); 2) he had snubbed Franklin D. Roosevelt when...
...Glass-Steagall bill attempted other reforms. Reserve member banks were to get rid of their stock-selling affiliates within one year. A new requirement called upon private bankers within the same period to cease accepting deposits or get out of the investment business. The Senate bill permitted national banks to have branches in States which allowed State banks to have them. The House bill made no such concession to branch-banking...
...congratulating themselves on having swindled a foolish parvenu when the admirer whom Polly Cass really likes shows them a copy of TIME, containing a picture of Bugs Ahearn and a story of his background under Crime. This document, a travesty on TIME, convinces the Casses they had best be rid of Bugs Ahearn. Simultaneously Bugs Ahearn learns that his new brokerage business is dishonestlv bankrupt, that his fiancee is unfaithful. He imports his entire Chicago staff, sells back the brokerage business with the aid of machine guns, gets engaged to his secretary, turns his private polo field into a playground...
...sovereignty. Such was the British flag which no longer flaps over Dublin's Government buildings. Such was the resounding oath of "allegiance" to His Majesty George V, his heirs and successors by law, required of all Irish Free State members of Parliament. Last week Eamon de Valera got rid of that too, despite a stone around his neck and a yapping pack at his heels. The stone is the Irish Seanad (Senate). Its 60 members are elected for nine-year terms by the Dail and Seanad conjointly, in batches of 20 every three years. Once an honorable company, they...