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Other newly elected officers include David G. Halstead '41, vice-President; Lynn A. Brua '41, Manager; John R. Bemis '40, Secretary-Treasurer; Llewellyn Vorley '41, Librarian; Franklin J. Tyler '41, Specialty Manager; David P. Sheppard '40, leader of the Gold Coast, with the leaders of the Vocal and Mandolin Clubs to be appointed shortly...
...Morris Sheppard of Texas, the gentle, whitehaired father of the late Prohibition experiment and diligent overseer of Senatorial campaign morality, last week went to the White House in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. News that President Roosevelt had secretly aided France in purchasing U. S. airplanes, revealed accidentally by the crash of a new Douglas bomber in California (TIME, Feb. 6), had upset and excited Military Affairs.* In the White House, President Roosevelt began to lecture Chairman Sheppard on his reasons for helping France, using background facts and confidential reports so arresting that Chairman...
...modeled after taxes now levied in Indiana and Hawaii, and the federation calculates it could raise $7,000,000,000 a year for pensions in the U.S. The General Welfare Act has 100 pledged supporters in the present Congress. Two of them, California's Jerry Voorhis and Harry Sheppard, turned up to read the skeptical Chairman Doughton prepared statements on the wonders of the General Welfare Act. The federation's nominal president, the Rev. Mr. Thomas E. Boorde, a member of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, "which speaks for 4,121,000 Southern Baptists...
Irving Chase '39 heads the Dance Committee, assisted by S. Roger Sheppard '41, Llwellyn Vorley '41, L. John Profit Sp., and Frank F. White '89, Gardner Stratton '39 has been appointed Head Usher. The committee has announced that the dance will be limited to 200 couples at $4.50 each, while no more than 75 stage at $2.25 per head will be admitted...
Vice President & Mrs. John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner last week dined at the White House (he in white tie & tails). Contrary to report, Cactus Jack likes the party that the President gives him every year. He attended in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938. Top members of Congress (Borah, Sheppard, McNary, Sabath, Rayburn, Boland, etc. etc.) were there. But local chit-chat artists were truly swamped two nights later when the Roosevelts entertained the 76th Congress, swamped by the new faces presented and their political implications. At the Congressional Reception, Jim Farley held court in a receiving line...