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...candidate. He nominated "Jack" Garner for Vice President at Chicago and is now supposed to be the retiring Speaker's choice as his successor. Though an advocate of real economy, he still is one of the most personally popular members of the House. To compromise the sectional feud between North and South, "Joe" Byrns's candidacy was offered. As Appropriations chairman he had enormous prestige not only among his respectful House colleagues but also with Democratic politicians and office holders all over the U. S. Though Majority Leader Rainey held a slight betting edge last week in this...
...East. In the South there has been reciprocal licensing trouble before. The Highway Users Conference, whose membership includes rubber, petroleum and motor interests as well as truck operators, lays the whole license ruction at the doors of railway lobbyists in State Legislatures. Last week, while the Pennsylvania-New Jersey feud went on, a joint committee of railroad presidents under President William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania met in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station with motor transport executives under the leadership of Vice President Alfred Harris Swayne of General Motors. The conferees issued an amiable announcement following the meeting which failed...
...Sinaia Palace, where the new Rumanian Cabinet received their seals and swore fealty to King Carol last week, Premier Maniu seemed to end his personal feud with the scapegrace monarch in these ringing words: "We will work to consolidate the Throne! We will erect a protecting wall about...
...lion hunt for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was its energetic crime-news reporter, Alvin Goldstein, 1925 Pulitzer Prizewinner (for helping solve the Leopold & Loeb crime). The Post-Dispatch's up-&-coming rival, the Star-&-Times, had engaged United Press Correspondent Leland Chesley. Their rivalry became a feud when Reporter Goldstein claimed exclusive rights to take pictures and Hunter Wright supported his claim. The rival newshawks chartered separate boats...
Miss Dockery's livestock used to stray over upon the "Glenburney" plantation. Once Miss Merrill was supposed to have shot into a herd of her goats. A strange "red, white & blue" pig also figured in the dispute. The feud between these reclusive neighbors several times overflowed into the local courts. The Dana-Dockery indictments were based principally on fingerprints found in "Glenburney." After being held in jail ten days, Dana and Miss Dockery were released and police continued to arrest every suspicious person in the neighborhood...