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...known as the Smoot-Hawley bill ?without consulting their Democratic colleagues. Because of their majority the Republicans can report the bill and probably get it through the House under a special rule prohibiting amendments. In the Senate, however, where no such rule will apply, the question will be torn wide open and the bill amended. Perhaps as much as two months will be spent in Senate wrangling over the measure. Congress may not be able to adjourn before the end of summer...
...lingering sense of sympathy for the under-dog is all that could prevent entire agreement with the decision of the Administration to sell arms to the Federal government of Mexico and continue the embargo on all shipments to the rebels. In the case of a country chronically torn by civil war, the populace is the eventual loser thru the wholesale destruction of property and the gain to law and order through a speedy settling of the strife is certainly of primary importance to the United States as well, with its large commercial interest in danger...
...Shaws moved from their famed quarters in Adelphi Terrace when the building was torn down, and live today in a modern elevator apartment ("service flat") overlooking the Thames...
Helma's was then, as always, an artistry of the theatre. She was torn by Ravet's death. She thought she needed Raymond again and went to Biarritz to find him. But he had married without telling her, grown heavy, gone into business and was fathering a family. She fled to Buenos Aires and on board ship she married de Laurac who, she discovered later, preferred to her a slovenish bourgeoise who bore him children...
...official statement was as follows: "We have been ordered to vacate the building that we are in and move into Shepherd Hall before July 1. This building will be torn down to make room for one of the new Houses...