Last week the Senate: > Finishing fighting over Cordell Hull's authority to negotiate trade agreements (TIME, April 8), downed a final attempt to limit extension to one instead of three years, sent the bill unamended to President Roosevelt. Final vote: 42-10-37.
> In committee, continued to forget Economy, gobble 1940 pork. Items: $25,000,000 for some 50 flood-control projects (upping the War Department's total for civil functions $70,000.000 above those voted by the House); a $231,000,950 authorization for future flood-control projects (the House had voted only $73,620,100).
> Put on (with the...