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Last week Col. Mann emerged from a Savannah, Ga. meeting of disgruntled Republicans with a direct challenge to the Hoover administration. He referred to the President's patronage committee as "designing political hijackers" and "an interloping element of carpetbaggers." He proclaimed the purpose of his own "noble band": to manage the affairs of the G. O. P., South, without interference; to see that the 1932 Republican National Convention shall have "a solid delegation [from the South] uncontested and uninstructed...
...President Hoover's renomination would constitute a real factor at the 1932 convention. As a result of its 1928 victories, the G. O. P., South, will have 250 delegates instead of 167 as in 1928. The idea spread that Mr. Huston, ousted by the forces to which Col. Mann objects, might well join with Col. Mann to make political war on the White House...
...Tissue Paper." President Hoover disdained to notice the Mann revolt. Postmaster General Brown declared that if the President's only chance for renomination in 1932 depended on Southern delegates, he had better give up the idea of a second term. Exclaimed Mr. Burke: "Mr. Hoover will be unanimously nominated at the next convention. If he isn't, everyone knows the nomination will not be worth tissue paper...
...Entry--S. Frame C-13 D Entry--A. Royse D-23 HOLLIS North Entry--W. E. Hook 30 South Entry--W. W. Ryan 3 HOLWORTHY East Entry--B. Barnes Middle Entry--H. P. Minis West Entry--C. M. Dunlap 99 BRATTLE STREET C. W. Lowry D. E. Mann 5 LINDEN STREET Whole house--Potter Palmer LIONEL North Entry--E. D. Emigh 4 South Entry--C. F. Hartnett 11 LITTLE Floor 2--A. M. Nutter 11 Floor 3--M. Brody 38 Floor 4--C. Gillespie 23 Floor 5--H. R. Elsas 42 MASSACHUSETTS East Entry--H. H. Tweed 13 West Entry...
...character of the thoughtful fire-builder would seem to suggest a drama flickering with irony, but Playwright Mann Page has apparently overlooked this possibility, has devoted himself to the vapid story of the Elliotts. Inasmuch as they are wholly theatrical characters, limned without reality or wit, little can be said for the entertainment...