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...scholarly, war-impoverished Tennessee slaveholder, stringy, hard-jawed Hatton Sumners, 63, is a self-taught authority on law and history (specialty: the 13th Century). When he rises to speak, the House hushes. On an automobile ride in 1937 with the late Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Senator Ashurst, he announced the first serious opposition to President Roosevelt's plan for altering the Supreme Court by saying: "Boys, here's where I cash in." He would not receive the Court bill in his committee and forced the Senate to consider it first...
Birthdays. Shirley Temple, her tenth, in Hollywood; Princess Elizabeth, her 13th, in London; Adolf Hitler, his soth, in Berlin...
...Joad family, Oklahoma sharecroppers, who lose their 40-acre farm to the bankers, sell their possessions for $18 to gyp agents, buy an ancient jalopy for $75 from racketeers, head out on Highway 66 for the land of plenty promised in a come-on California handbill. With them - the 13th passenger -goes lanky, philosophizing Preacher Casy, hillbilly Moses turned rustic socialist. Hero of the Joads is tall, homely son Tom, a paroled convict. Heroine is Ma Joad, strong, patient, dreaming of "a white house with oranges growin' around...
House Applications are due in the Office of the Secretary for Houses, 4 University Hall, by 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 13th. MEMBERS OF THE CLASSES OF 1940-41 who are now on the Waiting List are reminded that they must re-apply if they wish to be considered for admission to the Houses for the year...
...smoking 68 Sam Snead broke the tournament record by two strokes with 280, seemed the winner. Ralph Guldahl started the last nine needing a 33, three under par, to beat him. He got a birdie, two pars. Then he hit a weak, 22O-yd. drive on the 480-yd. 13th and his jig seemed to be up. His ball was in a downhill lie; yawning in front of the green 260 yards away was a deep, water-filled ravine. Without hesitation Guldahl took a spoon instead of a safe iron, swung with all his 200 pounds, sent the ball whistling...