Last week the Senate also:
¶ Confirmed the appointments of: 1) Pennsylvania's Congressman John W. Murphy, Democratic member of the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee (which finished hearings last week after taking more than 8,500,000 words of testimony), as U.S. District Judge for middle Pennsylvania; 2) Harvard Law School Dean James M. Landis, Roosevelt brain-truster, former head of SEC and OCD, to membership on the Civil Aeronautics Board. CJ Received from the Banking Committee a bill to raise the price of silver from 71¢ to $1.29 an ounce within two years.
The House:
¶ Wasted one afternoon in filibuster and six quorum calls to...
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