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State. As the master of a solid bloc of faithful votes. Tom Pendergast has long been the No. 1 Democrat of his State. But in 1932 St. Louis' Bennett Champ Clark went to the Senate without his help and Boss Pendergast has since had to sign a working agreement to claim patronage only in the western half of the State. The truce has lately been strained, to the dis pleasure of Tom Pendergast. First strain came when young Maurice Milligan, whose Brother Jacob was defeated by Pendergast's Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney...
...Former champ Mitchell, contacted last night said that he would make a come-back after mid-years. "And I won't stop at 20," he said. "It's more...
...left their mark on U. S. history much more indelibly than President Polk. As Speaker- the title is derived from the ancient custom of the House of Commons which, voteless, sent a member to the King to speak for them-men like Henry Clay, James G. Elaine, Joseph Cannon, Champ Clark and Nicholas Longworth have used their authority so effectively as to give the job a lively tradition of being second in importance only to the Presidency itself. Since the departure to the Senate of John Nance Garner the speakership has suffered a woeful decline in prestige. Old Henry...
Together with rumors circulating around Cambridge that Dick Harlow may turn out a football team this fall, a wave of "collegiatism" seems to have seeped into this stronghold of majestic indifference. Heading this sabotage on indifference is no loss a personage than Captain Charles (Champ) Hutter of the swimming team and Grand Marshal of the cheer-leading sextet...
...Scott P. Squyres, a jovial World War veteran professing Indian descent. On the speakers' list with headline peace material were such names as New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, New York's Governor Lehman, New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee. Getting in his political oar, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg declared. "It is none of our business, as neutrals, what the effect of our neutrality will be upon anybody but ourselves...