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...fairly frequent visitor to the White House in the early days of the Administration was Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, the plump radiorator from Royal Oak, Mich. He subsequently split with the President over Inflation, the Bonus, the World Court. Recently, however, Father Coughlin shut up his Washington lobby, conceded: "President Roosevelt enunciates the clearest, most effective and beneficial principles of social and economic justice of any living American political economist." That Franklin Roosevelt had taken a potent critic into camp seemed to be confirmed last week when Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission rolled up to Hyde...
...polite obituaries over, speculations as to just how big a hole the late Senator had left in the nation's political life were in order. His death had certainly put an end to any radical independent Democratic threat to split the party in 1936.** His Louisiana followers had enough to keep them busy at home. Governor Floyd Olson of Minnesota is going to test his radicalism by opposing Senator Thomas D. Schall for his seat. Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, whose abuse of President Roosevelt and the New Deal has been second only to that of the Kingfish, has Long...
After his split with Laffoon, ostensibly over the sales tax which he opposed, Lieut. Governor Chandler last winter slipped a more important stunt over on his absent boss. He rammed through the Legislature a bill creating compulsory party primaries with the high man on each ticket winning the nomination, regardless of the size of his vote. When the Governor got back he rushed through an amendment compelling a run-off primary if the top man did not receive a majority. That proved the Laffoon machine's undoing, for in the August primary Candidate Rhea topped Candidate Chandler...
...last week the factional split between Democratic friends & foes of St. Louis' Mayor Bernard F. ("Barney") Dickmann had resulted in nothing more than bad blood, hot words. Last week both sides got their dander up over a city-wide poll on a $7,500,000 bond issue to build a memorial to Thomas Jefferson beside the Mississippi. Following day City Market Master James O. Stubbs and State Representative Lawrence J. Fontana, both Dickmann men, marched with two friends into the office of City Recorder of Deeds John P. English, head of the anti-Dickmann faction...
...Mediterranean. A 55-ft., two-masted auxiliary schooner, she had sailed to Bermuda from the U. S., seemed capable of going anywhere. But last week in midocean a 100-m.p.h. gale swept down upon her, snapped her foremast, pounded her with huge waves, filled her cockpit, flooded her engine, split enormous seams along her keel. Owner Welsh and his crew flew a distress signal, began frantic pumping and bailing...