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...ought to examine our consciences." New Mexico's Dennis Chavez argued plaintively that Senators' offices are overcrowded (they are), that they have no place to receive visitors. Cried Chavez: "Oh, we can vote billions of dollars without batting an eye. We can appropriate automobiles for third-class clerks in a department. But when it comes to doing something for the people of the United States, we are told that we must . . . not waste the people's money." After some hours of this, Florida's Spessard Holland suggested that the Senate vote down the building "quietly...
...said, "Back the professor comes after 17 years, with his rotten advice, trying to lure yet another generation along the wrong path." Union President Robin Day rang the bell for silence, but Randolph soon brought another uproar by saying, "It may be just a joke for the professor, this third-class Socrates,* [but he] is corrupting, infecting and polluting the good relations between Britain...
...thrust at Joad's third-class travel on a British train without buying a ticket, which brought him a court conviction...
Trilby & Tweeds. The title made only a slight change in his double routine. Before each session of the House of Lords, the new peer, in his crumpled tweeds and battered old trilby, bought a third-class railway ticket and hopped a train for London. After that he returned to Oxford-to his wife, who refused to share his title ("We are simple people," she said), to his lunches of cold mutton and prunes, and to his troubled surveillance of some of Balliol's new postwar, government-aided scholarship students. Once he told the House of Lords...
Pastor Herbert Reich had never seen the two 15-year-old girls before, but when they clambered down from the crowded third-class coach at the Delmenhorst station one day last week, he recognized them at once. Their clothes were clean but more patched and ragged than is usual in Western Germany, they carried tiny battered satchels instead of suitcases, and their eyes were bright with anticipation. Thirty-five-year-old Pastor Reich, who lost one leg to a Russian mortar shell, hobbled forward on his cane to introduce himself. "Guten Tag," said Else Hartmann and Irma Mueller shyly...