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...Reed had an audience of less than 50 when he delivered his speech behind closed doors. Before its end he broke down and wept. Joe Ely could not win the Southerners present to support Landon. He had to be content with an enthusiastic agreement to oppose Roosevelt. Ablest work at the meeting was done by Bainbridge Colby, who wrote its resolution declaring that Franklin Roosevelt had turned his back on his 1932 platform, that his administration had tried in every way to strike down "the beneficent structures of Democratic Government." Said the Colby pronunciamento...
Protagonists of the scandal were Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 22, ablest and best-looking swimmer on the U. S. team; Playwright Charles MacArthur fresh from a Chicago courtroom where his first wife, Cinemacritic Carol Frink, finally withdrew an alienation of affections suit against his second wife Actress Helen Hayes (TIME, July 13); and Avery Brundage, chairman of the U. S. Olympic Committee...
...Republican and Democratic convention delegates combined-and as many more visitors. If they were genuinely representative, they meant that there were millions of oldsters like them throughout the land, each with a vote, each with 10? per month for Townsend Club dues. On that assumption, the nation's ablest rabble-rousers battled last week for their allegiance...
...York's history, showed no inclination whatever to climb out and let the experts in. When the children were finally shunted to one side, the crowning absurdity was revealed. The pool was only three-feet deep instead of the Olympic standard of five. Long-armed swimmers, usually the ablest, who tried to do the crawl scraped their fingernails on the bottom. Said Olympic Coach Ray Daughters: "Mark my words . . . the tryouts are going to be miserable...
...this end, some of Wall Street's ablest have exerted themselves through four years of financial diplomacy. The debenture holders' protective committee, headed by Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, formed only a month after Kreuger's suicide, entered a race to find assets where it was generally believed that no assets existed. A Committee of Investigation appointed by the Swedish Government early reported: "Our examination has reached the point where we can state definitely that there will be little, if anything, for distribution to unsecured creditors...