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Officials of the select club called on the President, who has been a member since its foundation eight years ago, to ask whether he would not like to go down there for a weekend of political conferences as he has before (TIME, July 22, 1935 et ante). And if so, what Party leaders would he like invited? The President beamed. Every Democrat in Congress is a Party leader, let all (407) be invited, including the nine male members of the Cabinet. That would be a big party, but they could manage it by holding a three-day week end. There...
...fight was over the Administration's $1,500,000,000 Relief bill for fiscal 1938. In the House vigorous attempts were made to attach earmarking amendments to provide pork for the constituencies of various Congressmen (TIME, June 7 et seg.), but in the Senate the revolt against the bill was of an entirely different character. The fight in the Senate was started when dapper Senator James F. Byrnes, long rated a close political friend of Franklin Roosevelt, proposed an amendment sponsored by the Appropriations Committee requiring that no Work Relief projects should be undertaken unless the local communities concerned...
...only job he could get was one as "house father" at Detroit's Protestant German Orphan Home. A school janitor for the past eleven years, old Mr. Denhardt began studying nights at the University of Detroit three years ago. He wrote his thesis, in French, on Victor Hugo et la Nature...
...Tall, lofty of brow, matter-of-fact, he is a shrewd master of church and business law, a rigid disciplinarian who will take no back talk from any Father Coughlin. Indeed, observers felt that, though the Church had successfully liquidated the "Coughlin affair" of last autumn (TIME, Aug. 17 .et seq.) by giving the radio priest plenty of rope, it was putting a strong man in Detroit especially to prevent any repetition of Coughlinism. Archbishop Mooney is modest, good-natured, affable in dealing with churchmen of other faiths. In Rochester he drives his own automobile, plays golf...
...Ministers of Europe, the imminent likelihood of Soviet planes winging over the top of the world to the U. S. (TIME, May 31 et seq.), a development in air transport even more prodigious than Pan American's bridging of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans (TIME, Dec. 2, 1935), revives the old bugaboo of Red Wings over Europe...