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Nepotism also runs high in the Senate where blood relatives are listed as secretaries to Kentucky's Barkley and Logan, South Dakota's Bulow, Tennessee's McKellar, Minnesota's Schall, Delaware's Townsend, Florida's Trammell*, Iowa's Brookhart. Last week the case of Senator Brookhart was a large campaign issue in his State's Republican primary (June...
...Four and no more" was the motto of the Finance Committee when it wrote these tariff items into its tax bill. Progressive Republicans and low-tariff Democrats loudly denounced their inclusion as the result of logrolling. An apparent Democratic trade: Barkley of coal-producing Kentucky would vote for an oil tariff if Connally of oil-bearing Texas would vote for a coal duty. Hayden of copper-mining Arizona would support both levies if Messrs. Barkley and Connally would help him get a rate on copper...
...bill's proposed tariffs on oil, coal, lumber and copper spoiled its non-partisan character. Five Democrats of the Finance Committee signed a minority report flaying the log-rolling which put such duties into the measure. Democratic committeemen who did not sign this report were Kentucky's Barkley, proponent of a coal tariff; Texas' Connally and Oklahoma's Gore, proponents of a duty on oil; and Utah's King, copper...
...earning $3 a Sunday singing in the Methodist Church choir of Bloomington. Ind. ; and tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) James Melton from Ocala, Fla. In 1929, shortly before the quartet took its first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter of Novelist Marjorie Barkley McClure. The Revelers earn their big money now broadcasting for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over a nation-wide hookup. They broadcast for Buick too, over a midwestern hookup. With a substantial Coca-Cola contract be sides, James Melton will make an easy $100,000 this year. It enables him to live...
...After a table-pounding, all day session in Chicago, a sub-committee of 23 Democratic National Committeemen chose Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, Roosevelt supporter, to be keynoter at the national convention. Jouett Shouse, rival for the position, was recommended for convention chairmanship...