Collier's & Congress

If a citizen of Hankinson, S. C. wanted to know how Hampton Pitts Fulmer, his Representative at Washington, voted on the major measures of the New Deal, he would probably have to go to a good deal of bother. What he or any other citizen of the U. S. could not do until this week was to send 5-c- to a Manhattan address and receive the New Deal votes of all 96 Senators, all 435 Representatives.

That tabulation was published in booklet form by Collier's Weekly primarily as self-advertising. Unlike most pieces of magazine promotion, it had little to say about Collier's, devoted itself almost exclusively to simple charts of Congressional votes, arranged by states, on 22 prime measures ranging from the Emergency Banking Act (March 1933) to the Labor Dispute Act (June 1934). Collier's staff began the project two months ago, only to discover that the ground had already been ably covered by Congressional Intelligence, Inc, a Washington reporting agency in the latter's volume, Factual History of the Roosevelt Regime. Since the volume went to only a limited number of $10 subscribers, Collier's felt that the field of political interest was still large, especially as a national election was coming in November. It made a deal with Congressional Intelligence to condense and reprint its compilations with credit. This week 23,000 copies of the Collier's booklet (49 pages") go to "key" businessmen and editors throughout the land.

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