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Alarmed were Chicago's bellicose Mayor Ed Kelly and Democratic National Committeeman Pat Nash. Mr. Kelly is 63, interested mainly in his work; older and wiser is Contractor, Horseowner Nash, whose interests, in order, are: 1) sewers, 2) stables, 3) politics. Sniffing Republican resurgence in the air, Messrs...
Last week bluff & burly Sportswriter Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune published the benefit's itemized balance sheet as submitted to Fellow Sportswriter Joe Williams, Finnish Relief Committeeman in charge of sport events. Chief costs of getting six professional tennists-"all schooled originally in the great amateur tradition of the sport" -to put on an evening's entertainment for charity...
...crazy. He took the Senate floor to belabor Mr. Taft, went for him with ridicule and bad grammar. Connally got Mr. Taft in a tight corner when he made him admit that he was for economy but also for farm subsidies. Then South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Appropriation committeeman, remarked that Mr. Taft, although a committee-member, had at no time this year tried to reduce any item in any of the four big appropriation bills. Stung, Mr. Taft said he had tried to reduce one bill 10 or 20% - "I forget which...
Cynical City. After 17 years in New York City, Thomas Dewey still bears the mark of Owosso. Newspapermen who got along fine with Jimmy Walker find him a little on the heavy side. Nor is the District Attorney a sophisticated, well-adjusted metropolitan politico like Republican National Committeeman Kenneth Simpson, who has a Matisse on his wall, Alexander Kerensky for his guest. Thomas Dewey takes his career and campaigning hard, has never been able, like most New Yorkers, to slide easily through the city's life, or pay without questioning the physical and intellectual tribute it demands. He remembers...
...Dies Committee, waved this evidence under the nose of Congress. Almost immediately the let ters were branded as fake. David Mayne, Pelley agent in Washington, admitted forging them. Thereupon Mr. Hook withdrew his charges, grudgingly apologized. The affair reminded everybody of the question: Where was William Pelley? Particularly, Committeeman Jerry Voorhis wanted to know. He had long been anxious to question Pelley. Presto! Mr. Pelley leaped into view, right in the Committee's midst...