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Died. Kevin Butler. 33. son of U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Pierce Butler; of injuries suffered when he fell through a Pullman car lavatory window at "Devil's Bend.'' one of Pennsylvania Railroad's sharpest curves; at Greensburg...
...adept hand in managing the press, Franklin Roosevelt knows when to make news, when not to make it. Last week, in the midst of the sharpest U. S. diplomatic crisis since the World War (see col. 2), his cue was not to make...
...week the incident aroused no outcry, no demand in Congress or the press that the U. S. Navy immediately steam across the Pacific to blow Tokyo off the map. What was remarkable was that it produced precisely the opposite effect. While the State Department was engaged in sending the sharpest notes since the World War, reaction of the U. S. generally was alarm, not that Japan would go unpunished, but that the offense might somehow involve...
...called the Speaker, who is required to vote only in case of a tie. When Alabama's William Bankhead answered loudly "No!", there was a rattle of applause, then silence until the vote was counted. A few moments later, Speaker Bankhead announced the result of one of the sharpest legislative battles since the New Deal began. Said he: "Those voting Aye, 216; No, 198. The bill is recommitted to the Labor Committee...
...terms to have Japan's sacred Son of Heaven informed of the feelings of the President of the U. S. C. Major social event of the Presidential week was the Gridiron Club Banquet, at which the President's remarks are, by strict rule, completely off the record. Sharpest of the six skits written by Washington newspapermen concerned Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the Supreme Court who, unlike Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Associate Justices James C. McReynolds and Harlan Fiske Stone, did not attend. Excerpt...