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...jumped Montana's Senator Burt Wheeler to second his leader, and to "deplore" a story spread by another team of political gossip columnists, Drew Pearson & Bob Allen, that isolationist Senator Ernest Lundeen was being trailed by FBI agents as a Nazi sympathizer when he died two months ago in a plane crash on a hillside in Virginia. (The Senate appropriated $5,000 to investigate the crash, the story...
Newsmen who hold Senators up to public ridicule, said Burt Wheeler, should be barred from the press galleries. He added darkly: "It is necessary for the people to have confidence in ... the Senate . . . particularly in these times, when the trend is toward totalitarianism throughout the world...
Holding the top ranking position among New England juniors with impressive records at Newton High School and Andover, Everts, although only a Freshman, is expected to win both Freshman and University tournaments in the style of last year's tennis captain, Dave Burt...
Last week Burt Wheeler told the Senate. Said Wheeler: "He [Sir George Paish] . . . said to me, 'Senator, the American people have never denied a request that I made of them. . . .' He said to me, 'I am responsible for getting the United States into the last war . . . and I am going to get this country into this war. . . .' He is urging that 50 destroyers be given to Great Britain. He is urging that the Johnson Act [forbidding loans to nations which have defaulted on their debts to the U. S.] be repealed. He was very, very frank...
...Canada last July, planned to begin a six-month lecture tour in November. He did not register as an agent of a foreign power. Three weeks ago he was a guest at the White House. Sir George last week did not deny that he had spoken the words Burt Wheeler repeated in the Senate. But he thought that the Senator had misunderstood his intentions...