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...Bigwig Democrats have seen something of Ed Flynn at the last three national conventions. But he is a stranger to thousands of local party hacks whom Jim Farley calls by first names...
...major in the reserve corps, new recruits will explain why they enlisted; old-timers will describe their happy lot; mess sergeants will dwell on the tastiness of Army fare; Army wives will rejoice about life among the soldiers. Adding dignity to the show will be many an Army bigwig like Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commanding General of the First Army and Second Corps Area. With Major Richard Ernest Dupuy, public relations officer of West Point, General Drum will help put the show together...
Bright & early one morning last week Citizen Sam Jones got up, piled his family into an automobile, and rode through the downtown section of Baton Rouge. Ahead of him sputtered motorcycle police, behind him came the Lieutenant Governor-elect of Louisiana, the Attorney General-elect, many another bigwig, State University cadets. Crowds cheered, bands played themselves red in the face...
...European Clipper terminus, Lisbon. Bustling but dignified League Secretary General Joseph Avenol, a Frenchman, had already sent the League's more important documents ahead to France. "We are so disappointed that Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium failed to appeal to the League," commented a typical Secretariat bigwig. "The practical results might not have been great, but the appeals would at any rate have been on the League's records...
Last week as the armed forces of Germany went a-Blitzkrieging into Belgium and Holland, short-wave listeners at CBS and NBC, on the air 24 hours a day for the duration of the crisis, dialed, interpreted, transmitted with feverish haste. The ether rasped and crackled with charges & countercharges: bigwig power-politicians took the air and thundered...