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...says he will run for Governor of his state next year, He may, Huey has always treated the Senate with contempt. When he was elected to that body in 1930 he did what no other member over did delayed taking his oath of office for nine months. Perhaps he feels that a withdrawal from the Senate will appeal to the American people; and it well may. Too, by running for Governor he could strengthen his fences in Louisiana. Whatever Huey's purpose was in this latest statement on his future, there is only one thing certain--he will never retire...
...brother Edward. "What did your brother do after the plaster was put on his lips?" Edward was asked. "He started studying," replied the witness. Loyal pupils testified that Trustee Armstrong himself had placed the small flag in the coal bin, that they had not recited the oath of allegiance regularly since Miss De Lee left. Tightly clasping an American Beauty rose, Miss De Lee took the stand to deny that she was a Communist, quote from a teachers' syllabus in defense of her practice of admitting pet hens and rabbits to the classroom. Said she, "I asked Mr. Armstrong...
...sunning himself at Winter Park, Fla., he received an appointment from Secretary of the Interior Ickes as Government Secretary to the Virgin Islands, right hand Administrative job in the regime of Sexagenarian Governor Paul Pearson. Novelist Herrick packed his bag, boarded an amphibian and three days later took the oath of office in the Administration Building in St. Thomas...
Massachusetts. Last fortnight a filibuster blocked election of a President of the Senate, an official who traditionally administers the oath of office to the incoming Governor. After waiting a day, bluff James Michael Curley had himself sworn in by the Secretary of State. When the Senate finally chose its temporary presiding officer to be President last week, that official fainted dead away in the midst of reading the report of his election...
...Senators and old marched up before Vice President Garner to take the oath of office last week, two others looked on wistfully from the sidelines...