[Homer_J_Simpson]

Final Vote 58 to 31 – 2
Roosevelt Signs Bill to Call Guard – 3
Details of Voting in the Senate on Draft – 3
Senators Warmly Debate Draft And Conscription of Industry – 4
$5,531,000 Contract Let to Build Camp – 4
Tax Bill in House – 5
Archbishop Visits President at Home – 5
The International Situation – 6
The U.S. Navy’s New Dive Bomber – 7
British Submarines Sunk, Berlin Claims – 7
British Discouraging Food Gifts from U.S. – 7
Heavy Nazi Attack – 8
Berlin Night Raid Lasts for 3 Hours – 9-10
Attack on Rumania is Laid to Hungary – 10
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 11-12

[Vendome]

Amazing!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/aug40/f29aug40.htm

Only German fighters over England

Thursday, August 29, 1940 www.onwar.com

Over Britain... There are more German fighter sweeps but no major efforts by the daytime bomber force. The losses are 17 German and nine British aircraft.

[BroJoeK]

"Details of Voting in the Senate on Draft – 3"

Again notice: as many Republicans as Democrats on both sides of the issues.

Party line, and party discipline were obviously not then what we've come to expect today.