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...Treasury" for such piddling practices as forcing General John J. Pershing to pay for his own Pullman ticket after he had lost his voucher. Franklin Roosevelt, who cares little for such trivialities, was glad to see McCarl's term expire in 1936. After an unsuccessful attempt to abolish the post, he offered it to Warren, who promptly refused. This time, with billions going for defense, the President needed more than ever a man he could trust...
...would do what the old Constitution sought to prevent-invest supreme authority in a single dictator. It would probably abolish both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, substituting for them a single assembly of powerful yes-men. Dispatches from Vichy forecast the establishment of a "corporative" state in which, under Marshal Pétain as titular Chief of State, Vice Premier Laval, General Weygand and Minister of the Interior Marquet would form a power-wielding triumvirate. A regime similar to that of Generalissimo Franco, with whom 84-year-old Marshal Pétain was "tremendously impressed," was generally predicted. While...
...Note: Mr. James's advice on regimentation is interesting. As the leader of the Red Shirts, he is well qualified to speak on the subject. In his own words last fall, he stated that his idea of "improving America": was to climinate the Catholics and abolish universal suffrage by organizing a Fascist minority which would achieve its aims by means "other than the ballot box." Now he has given advice to the Transcript on how to "save" America...
...terms too simple for complete accuracy, Mr. Roosevelt then summarized his proposals to make independent CAA an adjunct of the Commerce Department, abolish CAA's Air Safety Board, otherwise revise its setup. The people who incurred the President's frightful politeness were eleven airline pilots. Organizer of their Washington "Lobby to Save Lives" was former United Air Lines Pilot Captain David Louis Behncke, president of Air Line Pilots' Association. Said Captain Behncke, politely replying to Mr. Roosevelt: "The pilots ... are not schooled in politics. They are schooled in flying and know what is necessary to make...
...Voted down (236-to-104) a bill by Judiciary Committee Chairman Hatton Sumners to abolish impeachment and trial of accused U. S. judges by House & Senate, substitute trial by Circuit Court judges...