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...bothers many a religious liberal. It was posed for him last month by a Nazi Bund rally on Washington's Birthday in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. That rally loudly cheered Adolf Hitler and Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie") Coughlin, loudly booed President Roosevelt ("Rosenfeld" to Bund speakers). Ejected from the meeting was Pundit Dorothy Thompson, who laughed shrilly at a speaker's citation of the Golden Rule. The rally was perfectly legal, and Bund-sters' freedom of speech was protected by police. All this moved Liberal Caswell to write: "It could well be that...
...Carlton, Mrs. Mordecai Ezekiel (whose husband is economist in the Department of Agriculture) picketed in evening dress. SECommissioner Jerome Frank stayed on at the Wardman Park Hotel and Senator & Mrs. Millard Tydings at the Shoreham. Those who passed the Mayflower picket line included the Bankheads (Senator & Speaker), Senators J. Hamilton Lewis, Carter Glass, Walter George, Arthur Capper, Clyde Herring, Kenneth McKellar...
...firmly had he impressed rule No. 1 upon Texans who came up to Congress after him that when the Democrats' big day came and he left the House after one term as Speaker, his Texas bloc possessed a degree of control out of all proportion to Texas' importance in the Union. Today Texans are chairmen of the House committees on Agriculture (Marvin Jones), Elections No. 1 (West), Judiciary (Sumners), Public Buildings & Grounds (Lanham), Rivers & Harbors (Mansfield), Un-American Activities (Dies), to say nothing of Sam Rayburn being Majority Floor Leader. In the Senate, Morris Sheppard (who outranks John...
This collection of key men is, however, only one squad in the following with which John Garner has equipped himself in the Congress. Since Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon (1837-1927), who finally met in Jack Garner his match at poker, no man, not even the late convivial Nick Longworth, enjoyed such influence among members on both sides of the aisle in both Houses as this stubby, stubborn, pink & white billiken with the beak of an owl, eyebrows like cupid's-wings, tongue of a cowhand. He takes Capitol freshmen aside and instructs them philosophically. "Now, Scott," he said...
Next day the lecture was reported in every big newspaper in the world. Reason : the quiet, didactic speaker was Joseph Stalin, and his well-behaved class was the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Although nothing like the rants which Herr Hitler broadcasts to the world, the speech was a big event-both because Stalin seldom sounds off on Russian and international affairs, and because the Congress was the first in five long years during which the repeatedly purged Communist Party has come to look as little like its former self as a muzhik...