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...Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite (running on the Republican ticket) Henrik Shipstead is defeated (by Democratic Attorney John E. Regan, or by onetime Governor Elmer Austin Benson), the Senate loses one of its handsomest nonentities...
...named Tax Lawyer Randolph Evernghim Paul of Wall Street's Lord, Day & Lord as moderator. Moderator Paul chose his sides skillfully. On business' teams, he lined up such stalwarts as Old Colony Trust Co.'s T. Jefferson Coolidge, Dime Savings Bank's Philip Adolphus Benson, Guaranty Trust Co.'s Robert L. Garner, Bowery Savings Bank's Earl Bryan Schwulst, Kuhn Loeb's Benjamin J. Buttenwieser. On Government's team, he picked such men as Jerome Frank, Leon Henderson, Ben Cohen, Lauchlin Currie, Emanuel Alexander Goldenweiser, Commerce's Richard V. Gilbert...
...Sofia, where his father, George H. Earle, onetime Pennsylvania Governor, is Minister to Bulgaria, Son George H. IV, 23, decided to return to the U. S. to join the air force. "To awaken America to her own desperate situation before it's too late," mustachioed Sculptor Stuart Benson, 63, onetime ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France, planned to tour the U. S., show films of the war zones. In Hollywood, Ecdysiast Faith Bacon announced plans to go to England as a nurse or ambulance driver. Disguised in cheap clothes and using an assumed name, black-eyed...
...Pont fellowships to Sidney W. Benson 2G, of New York...
Senator Claude Benson Pepper of Florida, who looks like a backwoods Noel Coward, is a zealous supporter of the President, and enjoys the confidences of some White House Janizaries. For that reason, what young Senator Pepper did and said last week had a special significance. First, he proposed to the Senate that the U. S. sell its Army and Navy planes to the Allies (when in the President's judgment these sales do not imperil U. S. defense). The proposal was shelved by a Foreign Relations Committee vote of twelve to one. Mr. Pepper voting alone...