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...floor, and a chicken leg came to rest on his trim grey head. >> John L Lewis' maid refused to sit in a Jim Crow seat, got arrested, said "Mr. Lewis will fix you for this." >> Representative Clare Hoffman (R., Mich.) asked that "applause" (to his speech) be stricken from the Congressional Record "because there was none." Speaker Sam Rayburn suggested making such omissions permanent and universal. >> Eleanor Roosevelt offered to refund her half of a $1,000 fee (shared by her agent) for speaking at a Burlington, Vt. hospital benefit because the fee wiped out the benefit...
...memoirs. ∙∙ Congress heard that Captain Jimmy Roosevelt was loading his chest with medals, raised its brows, learned he holds the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross, the Dominican Order of Military Merit, the Belgian Order of the Crown. ∙∙ Secretary Henry L. Stimson, in a strike-stricken week, upped the War Department work week from 39 hours to 44 at the same pay. ∙∙ Vice President Henry A. Wallace stepped to bat in a charity softball game, nearly swung himself off his feet at a ball three feet wide of the plate, then made a comeback...
...lamb. He seized the lamb and rushed through the smoke, followed by the baaing mamma, left them in an open field which was eerily lighted by fires and constant explosions. Six times he returned to the blazing pens, took the lambs in his arms and coaxed the panic-stricken ewes to follow...
Died. Lou Gehrig, 38, "Iron Man of Baseball"; in Manhattan. Stricken two years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (hardening of the spinal cord), the great, clean-living, slugging Yankee first baseman, son of a German-born janitor, had hung up the all-round record of baseball: 2,130 consecutive games (for 14 years he played in every Yankee game); more than 100 runs a year; a lifetime batting average...
...taken in by a hoax. a clever satire. It is unthinkable that Mr. Davis meant his poll-tax letter as a serious argument, rather than as a device to pull the legs of the southern arrogancy clique. We are all of us aware of the ignorance of the poverty-stricken, but it differs very little from the ignorance of the vast majority of those who are able to pay the tax. How can this letter have been more than a wicked, heartless gibe at the poll-taxers. Hucy Long, who Mr. Davis says, is the arch type of political mongrel...