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...honor at the University of Iowa. Harry Breene, Iowa City's newly elected Republican Mayor, a onetime railroad ticket agent, slipped, sprawled headlong into a fountain. He crawled out spluttering. shook water on nearby guests, fled in confusion. Nonplussed, Jacob Van der Zee. Iowa's Rhodes Scholarship committeeman, ordered the banquet to proceed. Local newspapers loyally suppressed their best story in years...
...Nevertheless, the Committee gave the ship a clean bill of health, but not without minority utterances by Representatives McClintic and Patrick J. Boland who said: "When I see girders that snap off like pretzels. I know something is wrong." Last week on motion of Congressman McClintic, no longer a committeeman. the Akron quiz was taken away from Naval Affairs and given to a joint Senate-&-House committee "that won't whitewash the Navy...
Boss John H. McCooey of Brooklyn, who is also a Democratic national committeeman, publicly repudiated his Congressional delegation's action, called its votes "asinine." Boss John Francis Curry of Tammany tried to weasel out of a boss's responsibility by saying that Manhattan representatives had not asked his views, that if they had, he would have advised them to stand by the President. The White House was unimpressed...
...Cabinet size." Governor Dern has treasured that aside ever since as his promise of a White House seat after March 4. For a time, though, it looked as if party factionalism in Utah would keep him out. When the Dern appointment was announced last week Ormond Ewing, Democratic National Committeeman, declared: ''He won't last more than six months. I'm glad to see Utah recognized but I'm not glad Dern...
...meetings of this Committee in Geneva, meanwhile, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia had opposed as "premature" a backhanded suggestion by British Captain Anthony Eden that each Committeeman say whether his Government thought the problem of exportation of arms had yet been raised by events in the Far East. In other words: "How about declaring an arms embargo against Japan or China or both?" Excitedly in London the Chinese Legation at once protested that the Great Powers would be helping Japan if they declared an embargo against both countries, since Japan is already so much better armed than China...