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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claude Swanson was chairman of the Senate Naval Committee in 1918 (when Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy), and ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1932 (when Franklin Roosevelt was President-elect), but he might never have been Secretary of the Navy if Harry Byrd had not wanted a seat in the Senate and if Carter Glass had not turned down a Cabinet post. To make a Senate place for Virginia's ambitious young Boss Byrd, President Roosevelt named Senator Swanson to a Cabinet position which had often been filled by a mediocrity...
...Elected as its new president plump, energetic Miss Amy Henrietta Hinrichs, a New Orleans elementary-school principal. A longtime English teacher, Miss Hinrichs shudders at misplaced punctuation marks and bad grammar. Among the first to congratulate President-elect Hinrichs were Louisiana's new Governor and Mrs. Earl Long. They wired: "All Louisiana is proud of you. Come and see us when you get home...
...that he had an ailing heart. His wife died. His son and secretary, Richard, sadly embarrassed him by talking too much and out of turn. And midway of his first Legislature in Sacramento, Culbert Olson had learned enough to moan that the Laborites and assorted liberals who concerted to elect him had made a disastrous mistake. They let Republican conservatives retain control in the Senate, Democratic conservatives in the lower Assembly. Before it adjourned last week after the longest (133 days) biennial session in California history, California's Legislature...
...coltish, unaffected charm, considerable wit, an ill-concealed admiration for its two picaresque but impossible male mainstays. Not calculated to stir up too much emotion, one scene in it will nevertheless bring goose-pimples to many a tough-bearded male. The scene: the girls, barbering their stepfather-elect, shaving downwards over his Adam's apple...
...Favored C. I. O. over A. F. of L. 2. Appointed a former Socialist as her assistant. 3. Boasted the Administration would continue to "spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect." 4. Made no effort to stop sitdown strikes. 5. Refused to deport an alleged Communist Labor 'official...