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...Ozark, Ala. where, a power in local Democracy, he is in considerable demand as a public speaker. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, he fought down the Ku Klux Klan when it sprouted intolerantly in his district, had the courage in 1928 to stump for Alfred Emanuel Smith when James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin was trying to turn the State over to the Hoovercrats. He helped to oust Heflin...
President Hoover spent his second week-end on the Rapidan mulling over relief legislation. Senate Democrats had come forward with a program which called for a half-billion dollar Treasury bond issue for public works. Speaker Garner would double that figure. Other Democrats, William Randolph Hearst and Alfred Emanuel Smith among them, were asking even more. Upon all such propositions President Hoover frowned severely...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith last week went Connecticut with 16 votes and New Jersey with 32. Total Smith vote: 100. ¶ At Warm Springs, Ga. Candidate Roosevelt last week not only re-introduced the "forgotten man" as a campaign issue but also brought forth a new figure-"the forgotten child." To Kiwanians he quoted Thomas Jefferson's last letter: "The mass of mankind was not born with saddles on their backs, nor were a favored few born booted and spurred, ready to ride mankind." Declared the New York Governor: "I think that statement is just as true today...
...Bayard Swope, Detroit's Fisher Brothers. Senator Norbeck was amazed to learn that Comedian Eddie Dowling also profited, though making no deposit. There was a strong political flavor to the pool, but Mr. Kenny's, Mr. Raskob's and Mr. Meehan's good friend Alfred Emanuel Smith was not listed by name...
Died. William Henry Todd, 64, president of Todd Shipyards Corp., close friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith; a few minutes after falling downstairs in his son's Brooklyn home. Son of a boilermaker, he lived to be called "the master shipbuilder of the Western Hemisphere." After the War, for which he had built many scout cruisers and minesweepers, he gave $1,000,000 to the 15,000 men on his payroll. Asked if he did it to prevent labor troubles, he replied, "Hell, no! I gave it to the boys because they earned it. ... You can't buy the loyalty...