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...limiting the use of the stabilization fund and Presidential dollar tinkering to three years; 2) giving the President power but not requiring him to issue silver certificates against all silver which the Treasury holds or may acquire. This done the bill passed 66 to 23 with only one Democrat, the indomitable Glass, voting against it. Promptly the House accepted the bill with the Senate amendments...
Huey Long might as well have spared his pains, his State's money and his voice for last week New Orleans indignantly smothered the Long candidate, John Klorer. Klorer received 31,869 votes. An independent Democrat named Francis Williams got 26,673. Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley topped the ticket with 48,752. Since Democrat Walmsley had no clear majority, Klorer was entitled to a run-off primary. But the Longster, a poor second against the massed votes of his opponents, had no stomach for another contest. Thus Semmes Walmsley, whose rough-&-ready politics were learned through a long apprenticeship...
Shifting his quid of tobacco from one cheek to the other. Senator Tom Connally of Texas last week laid before the Senate a 14,000-word report on the conduct of the 1932 Louisiana Democratic primary which John H. Overton won, which Edwin S. Broussard lost. Those who expected the Democrat-controlled Senate investigating committee to soft-pedal party scandals in the Pelican State were disappointed. Chairman Connally described the Huey Long machine, which elected Mr. Overton, as "vicious, deplorable and damnable." "I advise anyone who thinks he knows something about politics," said the Texan, "to go down in Louisiana...
Peru. At a State dinner given by Peru's President General Oscar Benavides, Secretary Hull beamed while President Benavides reminded him of his own handsome but vague remarks at Montevideo in favor of free trade. Old school Tennessee Democrat that he is, Secretary Hull knows well that present manifestations of the New Deal have definitely scuttled the Democratic Party's traditional low tariff policy, that the U. S. will probably raise rather than lower its tariffs. Nevertheless, smiling over the finger bowls. Secretary Hull said: "The toast is a tribute to the enlightened policy upon which President Roosevelt...
...Last fortnight, the London Daily Herald claimed the world's biggest circulation (2,030,000). †The 16 Gannett papers: Rochester Times-Union, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Albany Knickerbocker Press, Albany Evening News, Utica Observer-Dispatch, Elmira Star-Gazette, Elmira Advertiser, Elmira Telegram, Newburgh News, Ithaca Journal-News, Olean Herald, Ogdensburg Journal, Beacon News. Malone Evening Telegram (all in New York State). Also Hartford (Conn.) Times, and Plainfield (N. J.) Courier-News...