THE CONGRESS: Democracy

A time-honored tradition of Congress is: "never do today what you can put off till tomorrow." Even the most earnest Congressional freshman learns in jig-time that almost nothing in a democracy is actually urgent business.* Many a Congressional oldster has become a solid statesman by eternally delaying legislation.

To the vast impatience of many U. S. citizens, the bumbling House last week thus took up the problem of Finnish aid, in exactly the same manner and tempo in which the bumbling Senate had passed it, 49-27. The bumbling House Banking &...

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