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...years ago. when Speaker Henry Rainey died, Vice President Garner quietly pushed Mr. Rayburn forward for the job of Speaker. He lost because Senator Guffey, then as now big cheese in Pennsylvania, canvassed his House delegation, announced they would vote solidly for Joe Byrns. Thereafter Mr. Rayburn withdrew from the contest. This year matters are different. Sam Rayburn is better known, partly because he is head of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee (he has no other committee assignments) and as such fathered the utility holding company (death sentence) bill. Doing so won him the approval of Franklin Roosevelt...
Suddenly in Paris last week the Communist deputies withdrew their support without warning from the "Popular Front" Cabinet headed by Socialist Leon Blum because of his continued refusal to munition the Reds of Spain. M. Blum, after receiving one of the smallest votes of confidence since his Cabinet was formed, raged at the French Reds who had let him down, "I would resign if conditions were not so grave that my resignation would be understood neither at home nor abroad...
...Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental pipeline between Manhattan and Philadelphia. The company explained that its primary interest in the cable was for telephone communication, that it had no television projects afoot, but would lease the cable to all reputable television experimenters without favor. The Commission thereupon withdrew its objections and installation of the Manhattan-Philadelphia line was started (TIME, Oct. 14, et seq.). Last week, with installation complete, A. T. & T. summoned newshawks to its downtown Manhattan offices for the cable's first public demonstration. The cable can transmit 240 telephone messages at once. The voices...
...front wheel collapsed when he was pedaling at 25 miles an hour. On the second, the crowd watched a dentist line up his tools beside the track, extract a wisdom tooth from Heinz Vopel. On the third, sturdy-legged Franco Georgetti, trying to make a comeback before his retirement, withdrew from the event when he was 19 laps behind...
After the decision last week. Federal Water Service Corp. and Consolidated Retail Stores Inc. both withdrew stock-for- back-dividends plans, and National Supply Co. held up its plan pending counsel's opinion...