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...Nuckles Doak, the scowling, big-featured editor of The Railway Trainman, for years Washington lobbyist of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Mr. Doak worked with Mr. Hoover in Food Administration days. He came up from shunting boxcars in the hardboiled coal town of Bluefield, W. Va. Therefore he could command respect from workingmen. As a Brotherhood official he had functioned in the legislative field (helping, among other things, to draft the Watson-Parker Railroad Labor Act). He had not fought for strikes and boycotts and against company unions. Hence he would be acceptable to Business...
Theodore Roosevelt or his like in the White House might well have been impelled long since, by sheer curiosity, to have a look at such a national phenomenon as Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone has been allowed to become. It would have been distinctly Rooseveltian to command Capone's presence in Washington on any old pretext and settle his hash out of hand...
...Generals, male or female, must retire at the age of 70. This gives General Higgins command until 1932. Evangeline Booth, 64, Commander of the Army in the U. S. & Possessions, has in possible prospect four years of succession. Catherine Booth, whom her father, Salvationists believe, planned to succeed himself...
Aged 74, Hero Marshal Henri Philippe Petain had the French Government puzzled last week by his recent announcement: "I desire to be buried among those who died under my command...
...Knowing that the cinema audience is to a large extent the radio audience of the U. S., the producers of any effort whose cast included Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and Andy (Charles J. Correll) could be certain of attention at the box office. But material like this could command nothing but the very mildest attention if the radio audience were not the cinema audience. The explanation of the success of the blackface pair in broadcast is that they have created a fiction just funny enough to make people want to hear its nightly continuation and not long enough...