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About 3 o'clock: "If we stay here much longer, Mr. President, it will soon be time for the senior Senator from Texas, Mr. Sheppard, to make his annual speech on Prohibition. . . . Men are yawning; men's eyes are bleary; men's souls are tired; their feet are sore; their heads are heavy; they are needing rest; they are needing sleep; they are needing nourishment; and it is only two days from Saturday, when most of them will want to take a bath...
...Negro named Garland Anderson, he was ready to expound his message gratis for five nights in Town Hall, then proceed to Boston, Philadelphia and anywhere else his message was wanted. A leaflet announced that Garland Anderson's ''World Tour" was sponsored by Very Rev. Richard ("Dick") Sheppard, Canon of St. Paul's, Chaplain to King George V. Further, Garland Anderson claimed the backing of Sir John Simon, icy British Foreign Minister. Less impressively, his New York sponsors were Bishop William Thomas Manning, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, all three of whom lend...
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...would not listen to their pleas for political patronage or for "pork" from the $3,300,000,000 Public Works fund he administers. To save time he would receive Congressional callers at his office in batches, require them to come up to his desk and whisper their requests. Senator Sheppard of Texas once had to wait eight days to get a private appointment. So intense was the feeling against Secretary Ickes at the Capitol last week that House Democrats refused to vote an additional $4,000,000,000 for public works and emergency relief until they had been assured...
Married. Susan Sheppard, 19, daughter of Texas Senator Morris Sheppard; and Cornelius McGillicuddy Jr., 21, son of Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics; in Washington...