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...last week the handful of peers and black-frocked bishops in the House stared bug-eyed at Lord Rothermere's chair-filled by the porcine bulk of Lord Rothermere himself. That he was there to make his maiden speech was astonishing enough. That the speech was to back up Critic Mottistone of Mottistone, was amusing. Crowning absurdity was the reason for the speech-to shout alarums against Hitlerized Germany...
...full hour Huey Long gave them his oratorical works, including his best epithets: "The Lord Destroyer, Lord Corn Wallace' "Prince Franklin, Knight of the Nourmahal," "Ickes, the Chinch Bug of Chicago...
Rushing back to Washington, Senator Long burst into the Senate for a round of New Deal name-calling which began with "Lord High Chamberlain Ickes, the Chinch Bug of Chicago" and ended with: "Roosevelt desires that there shall be re-inflicted upon [Louisiana] the rottenest, most corruptive form of political debauchery ever known-and I don't mean maybe...
Scientific purpose of Mrs. Putnam's flight was to test a radio homing compass in her capacity as $1-a-year employe of the Department of Commerce. Over the State of Hidalgo both radio and compass went sour, a bug flew into her eye and she lost her bearings. Thereupon Flyer Putnam "sat down" in a cow pasture, learned that she was 60 miles from her goal...
...Anything to help build up a militant party!" cried gigantic, snaggle-toothed Representative Hamilton Fish of New York whose radio fan mail has infected him seriously with the Presidential bug...