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...attack by insurgent Senators on the old Power Commission has been Frank C. Bonner, its executive secretary. He was accused of "inefficiency," of favoring license-seeking private power companies. Last week Montana's Senator Wheeler unsuccessfully tried to get the new commissioners to promise to dismiss Secretary Bonner. Stung by what he called these "slanderous statements" and "unwarranted attacks," Secretary Bonner informed the Senate Committee that he would request a civil service transfer to another governmental bureau. The insurgent Senators cheerfully sped...
...Manhattan, Emil Sternart, just returned from the country, was painfully stung by a bee while riding in the subway...
...Sioux City, Iowa, H. J. Dagle broke his back several months ago, lived in a plaster cast. Last week he was stung on a vein by a bee, died in 20 minutes...
...with a yellow smile, shuffling his feet and feinting in a manner to which he had been tutored by onetime Negro heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson. Carnera was puzzled in the first round but thereafter held Godfrey's neck immovably in the clinches, jolted him with short rights, stung him with long lefts. In the fifth round Godfrey suddenly and apparently with deliberation hit Carnera low, followed the first bad blow with a long left below the groin. Carnera, writhing in agony, was declared winner on a foul...
...Stung by these attacks and challenged by the knottiness of his unfinished assignment, Chairman Legge asked President Hoover to reappoint him to office "until the shooting is over and this thing is safely on its feet." Last week President Hoover gladly complied with this request, renominated Mr. Legge as head of the Farm Board for six years-long enough to make or break the current farm experiment and Mr. Hoover's maximum expectancy for White House residence. Although many a Senator violently criticized Mr. Legge's policies, the Senate last week recognized his sportsmanship, confirmed his nomination...