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...Last week Republican Committeemen were asked to be in Washington Dec. 15 to perform this duty. flf Herbert Hoover is reelected, he will remain the 31st President...
Seaham's working (and jobless) men raised no cheer for. the Prime Minister. But a few women shrilled encouragement, heartened him to lift his hat and bow slightly as he entered Seaham Labor Hall. Inside. Seaham's 80 Laborite Committeemen, who always before had received Scot MacDonald standing & cheering, sat expressionless in their 80 chairs...
...Sloan, for this committee, on the ground that he had turned out 2,000 workers last spring, was not sincerely interested in unemployment relief. Retorted Mr. Sloan: "I don't know what the Brother hood of Brooklyn Edison Employes is." Not all of the President's advisory committeemen were as opposed as he to direct Federal aid. Declared President William Green of the American Federation of Labor: "We'll find later that appropriations will have to be made. ... It will require heroic efforts on Mr. Gifford's part to prepare for the heavy demands that will...
...Horse Doctor Doyle whose contempt case had developed into a test of the committee's powers. Mr. Seabury asked Dr. Doyle the one question the Court of Appeals had ruled he must answer: "Did you bribe any public official?" Replied Dr. Doyle: "No." Mr. Seabury and the Republican Committeemen were astonished by this answer, suspected Horse Doctor Doyle of committing perjury. Though the committee voted he was still in contempt, "Doc" Doyle's lawyers got him out of jail on a writ of habeas corpus...
...committee composed of an honorary chairman, two vice chairmen, a secretary, 52 honorary vice chairmen and 56 plain committeemen was formed last week to safeguard the Freedom of the Press. It was created under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and made public at a meeting of newsmen and Foundation leaders aboard the S. S. He de France in dock at Manhattan. By telephone from Chicago, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose 51st birthday it was, formally accepted honorary chairmanship. Chairman is Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer of Hearst's New York Journal, late of the Evening World...