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Alighting from his train in Washington, Vice President Garner again withdrew into a stony silence on national affairs. The next time newsmen saw him he was wandering around the House wing of the Capitol. He did not deny that he was "homesick for the old place." In a brighter mood, he pounded his small paunch. "Look at this waistline," he cried. "Know how I shaved off four inches this summer? Every day I went out to my pecan orchard and stooped over 125 times, picking up one nut each time. Say, that's great exercise...
Finally some Federation members took their first aggressive action of the week when a group of Southerners stomped off a convention dance floor because three Negro delegates were present. They threatened to resign from the Federation if the Negroes were allowed to remain. The Negroes politely withdrew. But after sweating over the problem in an all-night session the Federation's executive committee decided to uphold its constitution, which bans racial discrimination. The Negro delegates attended the grand ball & banquet...
...made possible by a practice which Senator Long freely admitted on the witness stand. Every primary candidate in Louisiana is permitted a staff of poll workers. In one-third of Louisiana's parishes, the Kingfish testified, his machine had paid the entrance fees of dummy candidates who subsequently withdrew in favor of regular Long candidates but left their poll workers in the field...
...years ago Mr. Hall withdrew from heavy competition, applied himself to the executive phase of the sport. He was for three years president of the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills, L. I., three years treasurer of U. S. L. T. A. and a member of the Davis Cup Committee...
After March 4, Mrs. Roosevelt dropped her cold cream radio hour, withdrew from the publishing house of Macfadden, for whom she had been editing Babies-Just Babies, and took a journalistic step-up with an advice-to-all-comers page for Crowell's Woman's Home Companion. Her ingratiating daughter Anna Dall, who has her mother's long legs and vivacity, remains available for advertising, since her broadcasting contract with Best & Co. expired. By no means as brilliant a White House daughter as "Princess"' Alice Roosevelt (Longworth), her second cousin, she and her children "Sistie" (Anna...