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...evening last week three candidates for President, Franklin Roosevelt, Publisher Frank Knox and Senator Arthur Vandenberg. sat down with many another bigwig of Politics. Business and Press. They laughed until their sides ached at the political slapstick of the Gridiron Club's spring dinner. When the fun was over at a late hour. President Roosevelt, feeling all warm and good inside, went back to the White House. There he found waiting him a message from the Naval Hospital: Louis McHenry Howe, his No. 1 secretary, was dead. Mrs. Roosevelt was already telephoning the news to Mrs. Howe in Boston...
Hearst v. Intellectuals. In 1934 Publisher Hearst was granted an audience with Nazi Germany's Reichsführer Adolf Hitler, chatted with many another Nazi bigwig. Biographers Lundberg, Carlson & Bates believe the German junket explains Mr. Hearst's subsequent journalistic forays against pinko professors at Syracuse, Chicago, Columbia and New York Universities. "One of the first lessons he had learned from his German mentor was the importance of terrorizing the faculties of colleges and universities."-Carlson & Bates. "Since his German trip, Hearst has been very preoccupied with students."- Lundberg...
...Crusaders, the Liberty League and kindred bodies had many a mutual friend who was ready to play his antipathy to the Roosevelt Administration all the way across the board. Ironically, the list of men who endow the New Deal's Opposition was found to include many a bigwig who belonged to the group that Herbert Hoover still thinks ruined his Administration...
...later by James Laughlin, an Irish immigrant who had prospered in a slaughtering and provisions business. Succeeding generations of Joneses and Laughlins have been cast with remarkable regularity in the mold of the founding partners. The Joneses went for steel, the Laughlins for culture. Founder Jones was already a bigwig in .he steel industry when Andrew Carnegie was a local telegraph boy. When Carnegie succeeded in delivering a message to Mr. "ones personally, Mr. Jones would tip him 25?. His son, Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr., was a crack steelman and J. & L.'s lead until his death...
...TWAirwreck of Senator Bronson Cutting (TIME, May 13 et seq.), the Senate inquiry came out into the open last week for the first time after eight months of special investigation. Empowered only to make recommendations to the Senate, the committee, chairmanned by Senator Copeland, called many an aviation bigwig, scheduled four days to hear their testimony. Excerpts...