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Wrote New York Herald Tribune Reporter Bert Andrews: "[The hearing] would have left an uninformed Australian puzzled as to whether America was trying to export Mr. Flynn as a diplomat or deport him as an undesirable." In grey suit and dazzling Charvet tie, which looked like a Dali dream, Ed Flynn denied all charges of graft and malfeasance made against him. Assistant Secretary of State G. Howland Shaw read a prepared statement calling Flynn "qualified," then deftly sidestepped all embarrassing questions. (Q: "Can you think of any poorer qualified man than Flynn?" A: "I am not in a position...
Last week the city of Lucknow engaged a contractor to catch Lucknow's monkeys, alive and unharmed, at the rate of one rupee, four annas (39?) per monkey. The city proposed to deport its monkey population to distant forests by special train. Total estimated cost: 10,000 rupees...
Interrupting, Minnesota's Senator Ernest Lundeen (see p. 17) declared: "I think the gentleman referred to ... should be deported from the United States." Said peppery old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia: ". . . If there is not a law to deport him, he should be deported anyway...
...House of Representatives passed a bill to deport C. I. 0. west coast Maritime Labor Leader Harry Bridges, often accused of being a Communist, found innocent by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Lamented the New York Herald Tribune: "Democracy is not to be defended by imitating the arbitrary legislative devices of despotism...
...Before the Senate was a drastic, catch-all bill, introduced by Texas' Tom Connally, which would deport aliens for (among other things) writing seditious articles, possessing dangerous weapons, engaging in prostitution...