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...Bruce Barton. Tall, impressively flat-waisted in the House's wallow of paunches, his auburn hair attractively wavy, an honest apple-cheeked smile, Mr. Barton, 53, seems the epitome of the wholesome U. S. businessman. If the 1928 cry for a businessman in the White House (Herbert Hoover) should be revived, Mr. Barton's candidacy would be even more obvious...
...Last week slender, blond, excited Alan Brown did. His Still Life, a swirling, subtly colored miscellany of newspaper, bottle, sticks of wood, pitcher, sprig of sumac, autumn grasses and a bird's nest, shared top honors with the Crucifixion, of thin, intellectual Manhattanite Fred Nagler. Both got John Barton Payne medals, and the Payne Fund bought their paintings for the Virginia Museum...
Well fed and thoroughly roasted at a National Press Club dinner in Washington were 1,679 pounds of potential candidates for President: U. S. Attorney General Robert Jackson, 165 Ibs.; New York's Representative Bruce Barton, 174; Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, 195; Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas, 185; Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, 205; Federal Security Administrator Paul Varies McNutt, 195; Michigan's Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 180; Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Holman Jones, 230; Manhattan District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, 150. Each gave a five-minute address (off the record) on "Reasons...
...Third-Termites of the Week: Illinois's bald, paunchy Governor Henry Horner. Chicago's bluff, blunt Mayor Edward Kelly. Add anti-Third Termites: New York City's Republican Bruce Barton, adman, God-man and Congressman from the Park Avenue district: "I feel sure that Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt will be permitted to have a happy, peaceful time at Hyde Park in the future...
...Soon his loggers began to fell the timber on the outskirts of the tract, getting closer & closer to the little village, until one pine crashed across the church fence. Aroused, tree lovers, historians, librarians of Tennessee, the few surviving Rugbyans protested. To their appeal for help, Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, who was born nine 'miles from Rugby, wired earnestly but distantly: "Only God can make a tree and it takes Him over 100 years." To the Chattanooga Woman's Press Club, Secretary of State Cordell Hull was less aloof: "Assuming that the trees are the ones...