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...lame legs. Years ago Louis McHenry Howe, his friend and adviser, had inoculated him with the White House virus. His election and re-election as Governor reawakened the Presidential fever, which burned with increasing intensity as the months at Albany wore successfully on and Herbert Hoover's prestige sank at Washington. Forgotten now is the fact that two years ago some of Franklin Roosevelt's oldest friends were deploring the evident, consuming degree of ambition as almost indecent. Such ambition is the mainspring of most political candidacies. Certainly no man without it could have become the third Democratic...
...shops one day per week and to allow Capitol attaches Congressional automobile tags. ¶ Received from the Appropriations Committee the first supply bill-Treasury & Post Office. Its total, $961,416,597, had been cut $32,912,304 under President Hoover's Budget estimate. Into this measure the House sank its teeth, went seriously to work. ¶ Meanwhile the Ways & Means Committee heard many a witness in favor of a 2.75% beer bill carrying a $5 per bbl. tax. Special Session. President-elect Roosevelt, if he can help it, does not want to begin his term by calling a special...
...spirited though one-sided swimming meet yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building, the Adams House tanksters easily sank the hopes of their Kirkland House rivals to the tune...
...Editor sank back into the cushions of the taxi and wished the meter wouldn't tick so often. In Detroit you can make a bargain with the chauffeur, but New Englanders have no sense of humor when it comes to money. Beacon Street is so far away. But damn the expense, there is always a wastebasket for regular bills. And tonight, tonight would be worth a King's Ransom...
Automobile production last week sank to 12,000 units. In Detroit everybody knew that the big producers, their selling season over, were laying 1933 plans. Usually model and price changes are announced at the New York Automobile Show. But last week Walter P. Chrysler jumped the gun and stated that his Plymouth was withdrawing from the four-cylinder field, would come out as a six to sell below the present $700 base price of the four. "The best evidence of confidence we can give" was the way he referred to the $10,000,000 which Chrysler Corp. has spent...