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Senate. In the Senate the stampede was started by sly, fleshy Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri. A Democrat, son of a great Democrat, but also an American Legion founder, Senator Clark had fought the President tooth & nail on the Economy Bill, which cut veterans' pensions, at the special session. He now prepared to discomfit the President by introducing an amendment to the liquor tax bill providing an extra excise on wines & liquors imported from War debt defaulting nations. Leaping at the chance to sound off on their pet hate, debt defaulters. Senate Democrats and Republicans alike began to line...
...plumped against the St. Lawrence waterway lest it give North Central Farmers an advantage in world trade and reduce tonnage down the Mississippi to the Gulf and to Europe. "Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge did not favor the internationalization of Lake Michigan!" stormed Missouri's young Senator Bennett Champ Clark...
...deck chair on his flagship the Olympia for $11. A moosehorn liquor set that her estranged husband had given the admiral she got for $30. The four red lacquer tea tables, gift of the Emperor of Japan, went to Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter for $16. Speaker Champ Clark's daughter-in-law got an oval gilt table...
...Harking to the pleas of Missouri's Governor Park, onetime Governor Caulfield and Senator Bennett Champ Clark, President Roosevelt pardoned Conrad Henry Mann, president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Republican leader and good friend of Herbert Hoover. Mr. Mann had been convicted of operating a lottery for the Fraternal Order of Eagles in 1930. Another prominent Republican, Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, was acquitted of a similar charge in connection with a Moose lottery last month. Fat, white-haired Mr. Mann served in Manhattan's Federal House of Detention four hours of his five-month...
...other extreme of political thought the chief critic of NRA happens to be blind Republican Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. A mass of political contradictions, Mr. Schall once voted for Democrat Champ Clark for Speaker in the House, yet he almost wept on Pennsylvania's William Scott Vare when the Senate booted out that squat Republican, Now hardly a day passes without a barrage of dead cats for General Johnson from the Schall office on Capitol Hill. The Senator's outpourings have annoyed and embarrassed his Republican colleagues whose silent strategy is to give...