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...last week when shots cracked out from sun-caked Matamoros, just across the broad Rio Grande from Brownsville, jumpy small-town Texan editors scare-headlined it as the expected Fascist revolt. When competent U. S. correspondents investigated they found no major revolt but a few Gold Shirts taking pot shots at police and Federal troops. After a day of skirmishing three Gold Shirts, one policeman, lay dead, 25 Gold Shirts were jailed. At dusk, Tamaulipas' Governor Marte R. Gómez took the Latin method of relieving tension. Alone, he strolled around the plaza at Matamoros...
Michigan's Senator Vandenberg thought the President should disclose "the justifying facts, if any, for the biggest regular budget for arms in our history." Congressman Maury Maverick, the liberal Texan, declared: "We must also decide what national defense is-whether it means battleships 600 miles up the Yangtze River in China or no farther than Hawaii." California's Senator Johnson wanted to know what the "foreign policy of this Government is. I don't know what it is. You don't know what...
...important legislation might be too high a price even for an anti-lynching bill. Said he: "Perhaps this is not the time to open wounds that may not heal." A reporter asked Tom Connally whether he still thought he and his friends could talk until Christmas. The old Texan snorted...
Next morning Mr. Maverick was relieved to see that the accomplished proofreaders of the Congressional Record knew their Genesis and had given back the coat of many colors to its proper owner, Joseph. Texan Maverick relished it so much that he requested a report on the 40 Government Printing Office employes who have the awful job of reading the Congressional Record out loud to each other every night. In a solemn rejoinder the Government Printing Office listed other grievous blunders its proofreaders had caught. Sample: a speaker recently mentioned Bancroft's ghost. "Banquo," said the report, "was the party...
...Marshall's glittering laundry depots all over town, he organized a 55-piece band which he dressed like Indians. He bustled around to his influential friends in Washington and persuaded them to attend games. Vice President Garner became a constant patron and fan of Fellow-Texan Baugh. Washingtonians enthusiastically pack-jammed Griffith Stadium every Sunday the Redskins were at home. Owner Marshall's $85,000 deficit turned into a prospective $20,000 profit...