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...never mean to hit below the belt, but I felt that roll-call on prostitution was a bit below. ... So, in all conscience . . . I withdrew...
...they had come to mend his bed. There were two beds in the room. The Senator asked which they would mend. How did they know in which bed he would sleep? To these astute questions the men could not reply. They could find nothing wrong with the beds. They withdrew. The Senator concluded his story: "It was evident . . . that I was both indignant and watchful." The hotel men's story was that a maid had reported some slats to be missing from a bed in the Senator's room. The house carpenter did not get around...
Walsh. Another who did not go to Houston was Thomas James Walsh, senior Senator from Montana, who withdrew his candidacy in favor of Smith after the latter won the California primary. Senator Walsh's comment on the nomination was: "Governor Smith is the most striking figure that has appeared on the political stage since Roosevelt...
...value of Chrysler common was in the vicinity of $70. Col. Goddard, acting with the approval of several other minority stockholders, went to the Supreme Court of New York and obtained a temporary injunction restraining the consummation of the Chrysler-Dodge merger. The court finally ruled against Col. Goddard, withdrew the injunction, but also directed Chrysler-Dodge to file a bond guaranteeing "to pay all non-assenting preference shareholders of Dodge Brothers...
Louis Lipsky, on the eve of the annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America, whose object is to rehabilitate the Hebrews in Palestine, last week withdrew as president. He wished to retire, Louis Lipsky asserted, "for the sake of harmony and peace." The day after he announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection, there emerged, in the form of a letter to Dr. Chaim Weizman, head of the World Zionist Organization, a report from the committee of judges who have been investigating charges of incompetence made against Louis Lipsky. The judges found that Louis Lipsky...