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Throughout the civilized world last week the fate of Finland and the future of civilization haunted the minds of civilized men. In the U. S. Senate Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas was speaking just before a proposal to aid Finland was placed before the most powerful legislative body in the world. It was cold blustery in Washington that day -considerably warmer than in Helsinki and a number of Senators stayed home. The aged Senator, tireless foe of his hatred of it whetted by his 37 years Congress, was in great form. Representative of a State that has twice population, more...
...Senator Sheppard was not talking about aid to Finland. He was talking about Prohibition (as he always has on this date since 1920). "We cannot continue," he cried, "to pour nearly 2,000,000,000 gallons of alcoholic drink every year into the veins of our democracy and expect it to retain the vigor and efficiency so vitally necessary in these critical times." Then he sat down. (Manifestations of applause in the galleries...
...committee includes L. Winfield Alberts '41, McCrae Cobb '39, Aldridge E. Hunt, Jr. '41, E. George Nadeau '40, David P. Sheppard '40, David Stiles '40, and Prescott H. Wellman...
...Passed (in five minutes) Senator Sheppard's bill to outlaw political use of Relief and other Government funds; sent it to the House...
...Cherbourg surrounded by French detectives, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh boarded the Aquitania, bound for the U. S. "on business" - his first return since he and Mrs. Lindbergh came for two months in 1937. Said Chairman Morris Sheppard of the U. S. Senate Military Affairs Committee : "I think he could give us some valuable information...