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...Land, early last week, appeared signs that guerrilla leaders were at last moving to unite their private armies, declare war on both old Parties. In Chicago, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share-the-Wealth") Smith announced on behalf of himself and his new ally, Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend, that they had reached "a loose working agreement" with the inflationist leaders, Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin and North Dakota's Representative William Lemke. To his new Manhattan headquarters went Father Coughlin to prepare for a radioration at week's end on "Why I Can Support Neither...
...Hugh S. Johnson last week, a third party might have brought defeat to Franklin Roosevelt next November. But even with Huey Long dead and leadership of his scattered Share-the-Wealthers fallen to a fustian evangelist; even with Priest Coughlin well past his peak of popularity; even with Dr. Townsend stripped of prestige by a Congressional investigation and minus the shrewd boss who whipped his inchoate following into a potent political organization-yet the birth of the Union Party brought grins to Republican faces, shivers to Democratic spines...
SUMMER WILL SHOW-Sylvia Townsend Warner-Viking ($2.50). Wordy, but rarely dull, Author Warner turns to French political history, presenting an ambitious character study of a strongwilled, wealthy young Englishwoman who, captivated by her faithless husband's ex-mistress, casts off fortune, respectability; donates her services to the underground revolutionists; in time's nick escapes being shot for participating in the abortive Parisian insurrection...
...special House investigating committee revealed that commissions amounting to $2,000 per month were being paid to organizers of the (1 Townsend Plan, 2 National Union for Social Justice, 3 EPIC, 4 American Legion, 5 American Federation of Labor...
Meantime Mr. Kent did not neglect his social life. In 1906 he married a Philadelphia socialite named Mabel Lucas, who is a good friend of old Mrs. Edward Townsend Stotesbury. For years the Kents have been going to Bar Harbor every summer, to Palm Beach every winter. Kent yachts ply all the waters from Maine to Florida. The Kent garages must be big enough to hold a score of cars, for Mr. Kent dislikes driving the same car two days in succession. He used to buy them second hand, tinker them himself...