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...McNinch, recommended by North Carolina's "lame duck" Senator Simmons, helped lead the 1928 anti-Smith movement which turned his State Republican. Senate Democrats doubted his Democracy, sought to question him on his 1930 vote. Another charge against Commissioner McNinch-which he loudly denied-was that he had covert connections with the Duke power interests and from them secured political funds, still unaccounted for, with which to combat the Brown Derby. Because of the power-&-politics nexus, all five Commissioners were ordered to appear this week before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to undergo a grilling. One prime question...
...farm relief and the tariff not in the League of Nations or the World Court. She spoke of a compromise tariff helpful to farmer and industrialist alike. What made Mrs. McCormick glum was the discovery of a widespread prejudice against a woman in the Senate. Added this was the covert opposition of many Illinois women to her because of what they considered her politically autocratic manner. Said she: "I hope nobody will vote for me simply "because I am a woman or vote against me solely because I am a woman...
...Lakin letters also revealed attempts to set the Cuban stage for visiting newspaper and magazine writers lest "they fall into the wrong hands." Covert arrangements had been made to receive and influence writers for TIME and for the New York Times...
While the run of dentists tired themselves attending lectures, looking at exhibits, seeing Washington sights, buying tourist knicknacks for the folks at home, Dr. Bogle confabulated with henchmen. Candidate Dewey confabulated, also Candidate Oliver. After covert dickers the association elected the Army's Robert T. Oliver their president-elect for 1930-31. An able dental technician, President-Elect Oliver is, like almost all his colleagues, not an important scientist. Neither Who's Who in America nor American Men of Science recognizes him. Neither do these compilations recognize outgoing President Howe or incoming President Bogle...
From Washington spread reports that the national organizations of both parties were preparing to make covert entry into the Virginia campaign in support of their respective Professors...