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...Appointed round-faced, bespectacled ex-Congressman Guy Swope,* Pennsylvania's Democrat who had the backing of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, to the Governorship of troubled, depressed, strategic Puerto Rico...
...years ago, at 55, Tip Reynolds started a newspaper. Printed on a violent, near-red shade of newsprint, the Pink Reporter turned out to be a two-fisted, name-calling, muckraking fortnightly. Tip Reynolds first fell afoul of the law when he went after John E. Kennedy, secretary to ex-Congressman Jerry O'Connell (who is now himself a "liberal" publisher). Charged with criminal libel, punishable in Montana by a $5,000 fine or a year in jail, Editor Reynolds hid out for a while in the hills, finally showed up, printed a retraction, and the charges were dropped...
...sponsors were active Buchmanites - ex-Congressman Fred Albert Britten, Washington Columnist George Gould Lincoln, onetime Assistant Attorney General Harry Wallace Blair. A number of other sponsors were devout men who were well aware that MRA was a Buchmanite enterprise; among them Senator Borah and Attorney General Murphy, who said: "I know nothing about [MRA] except what is good." But a majority of the Hon. sponsors were bandwagon jumpers and politicians whose attitude was, "Hell, it's not controversial, is it?" Republican Minority Leader Joseph William Martin Jr., who had signed a statement for the MRA meeting's program...
...Leiserson replaces Donald Wakefield Smith who has had a recess appointment since his term expired last August. To replace William Leiserson on NMB, the President chose another man small in stature, large in repute: David John Lewis, the learned, lovable, little Maryland ex-Congressman who was used last year in a bitter and stupid effort to purge Senator Millard Tydings (TIME, Sept. 12, et seq.).* As a worthy favorite at 70, Davey Lewis was considered too old for arduous duty on NLRB, just right for the easier routine of a railway mediator...
Flaying the New Deal's high-handed interference in matters which belong primarily to the states, ex-Congressman Robert Luce '82, last night warned the newly formed Harvard Chapter of the American Liberty League that the practical results of the Roosevelt administration not only are detrimental to the business operators but prove a menace to the workers as well...