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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Rousing Vote...
...rousing vote of approval to TIME for its forthright and scathing article, which places the blame for Philadelphia's misgovernment and plight (TIME, Jan. 8) squarely where it belongs. If any scandal calls for national publicity, it is the Republican plunderbund's 50 years of public-be-damned despoilment of our city, to pay for which that party now resorts to taxing the pay envelope of the lowest wage earner. The tragic irony of "honest" (or stupid) Mayor Lamberton's inaugural words, "If it [my administration] fails, you can blame the Republican Party," must be obvious...
...prominent collaborator of the Christian Front." Saying he did not have time for lengthy remarks, Hook inserted a statement in the Congressional Record. Despite his charges, the House Rules Committee passed a resolution approving continuation of the Dies Committee for another year, sent it to the floor for a vote...
Whenever Robert Alphonso Taft, 50, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has run for office, the electorate has done two things: 1) scoff at him, 2) vote for him. Mr. Taft is no charmer, but he gets elected...
...looked still brighter when the No. 3 man in the primary, ex-Governor James Noe, one time Huey Long lieutenant, came out for him. A few minutes after Noe's swing was announced, distraught Governor Long called a special session of the Legislature, hurriedly pushed through some abject vote-getting bills-repeal of the sales tax that has loaded Louisiana pockets with brass and aluminum tokens, repeal of the tax on gasoline used by boats, which has made Louisiana fishermen grind their teeth, statutory opening of the books of the State bond and tax board for examination...