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...Actress Bankhead had wanted to thank someone for "Daddy's" elevation to the No. 2 position in the Democratic House organization, Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania would have been the man. Last month Boss Guffey clinched last week's election of Tennessee's gawky, bush-browed Joseph Wellington Byrns to the Speakership by pledging the solid vote of Pennsylvania's 23 Democratic Representatives to his candidacy. Last week Senator Guffey again showed what a power he was in the chamber at the other end of the Capitol from the one in which he officially functions...
Norway's morose Haakon VII could thank his stars that in 1934 his Kingdom enjoyed the largest export business since the War, nearly double the volume for 1933. Down in Copenhagen hard-jawed Christian X felt safer because Danish workmen, mostly ardent Socialists, are now only 18% enrolled upon the dole, a magnificent drop from...
Doctor of the Year was Allan Roy Dafoe whose skill and commonsense as a family physician the Dionne quintuplets could last week thank for the fact that they were seven months old and weighed an aggregate...
...Thank heaven there is to be an intelligently edited newsreel...
Senator-elect Guffey's men took one vote which pledged their 23 votes to Candidate Byrns. Beaming, "Joe" Byrns went into their caucus to thank them. "This," he asserted, "absolutely assures my election...