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...cheek to the other. Senator Tom Connally of Texas last week laid before the Senate a 14,000-word report on the conduct of the 1932 Louisiana Democratic primary which John H. Overton won, which Edwin S. Broussard lost. Those who expected the Democrat-controlled Senate investigating committee to soft-pedal party scandals in the Pelican State were disappointed. Chairman Connally described the Huey Long machine, which elected Mr. Overton, as "vicious, deplorable and damnable." "I advise anyone who thinks he knows something about politics," said the Texan, "to go down in Louisiana and take a post-graduate course...
...supporters-Father Coughlin, Robert Harriss (cotton broker), George LeBlanc (ex-banker). James H. Rand Jr. (Committee for the Nation)-to ballyhoo their demands. In the House, Representative Andrew Somers announced that the Coinage, Weights & Measures Committee would hear the opinions of all the most vociferous money theorists-hard, soft, and elastic-Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, Frank Vanderlip. Father Coughlin, Professor Irving Fisher, Banker James P. Warburg, etc. etc. Before their voices could distract the country, the President acted. He sum moned all the members of the Senate and House Banking and Currency Committees ta a White House monetary soiree...
...childless wife, whom he married when he was 46, has not been able to break him of-his feet bother him. An earthy humorist, he likes to tell stories on his feet. Once he leaned out of his car in Manhattan and startled a policeman by enquiring in a soft drawl: "Officer, what kind of shoes do you wear? I have lots of trouble with my feet and just won dered how you manage to stand on yours all day long." The scene of the best Jones foot story is laid in Buckingham Palace. Colonel Edward Mandell House of Austin...
...greatest warships in the world is H. M. S. Nelson* which upped anchor in Portsmouth harbor last week and steamed out to sea at ebb tide. Just at the harbor mouth the 33,500-ton island of grey steel nosed into a bank of soft mud and stuck. On board was the new com mander of Britain's Home Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dudley ("Ginger") Boyle, K. C. B. Along the deck went he to the control tower, to confer with the Commanding Officer Captain Patrick Macnamara, well known in Washington last year as British naval attach...
...Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., was to have the job (TIME, Dec. 25). Again Mr. Jones repeated his promises, but by last week Continental Illinois knew that being in Mr. Jones's parlor was like being in the parlor of any other majority stockholder. He would exercise his right -soft speeches or no soft speeches-to name the bank's chairman. So a committee of seven directors waited on Mr. Jones in Washington. Head of the Committee was Col. Albert Arnold Sprague (of Sprague Warner, wholesale groceries) who at one time was head of Chicago's businessmen...