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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warming to the heart of Franklin Roosevelt were words from Britain's cherubic economist, Josiah Stamp, newly created Lord Stamp of Shortlands, who landed in Manhattan last week "to find out what the length of your depression will be." Said Lord Stamp...
Reds & Nazis and any other "unAmerican activities" he may find in the land will be the quarry of loud, towering, ham-handed Representative Martin Dies (rhymes with "pies"') of Texas. With him will work six House colleagues on an appropriation of $25,000. To get his inquiry voted, Martin Dies (whose hatred of communists is his political stock-in-trade in Texas) enlisted the support of Representative Samuel Dickstein (whose hatred of Nazis is his political stock-in-trade on Manhattan's lower East Side). Publicity-wise Mr. Dickstein, anxious to revive the Nazi-hunting committee he headed...
...favor of seating Democrat Roy. Unsatisfied, the House gave the committee $5.000 for further hearings, the unprecedented task of interviewing all of Newton's voters to see whether there had been 458, as Mr. Jenks maintained, or 424, as claimed by Mr. Roy. After interviewing all they could find- nine had died-the committee reported that 458 votes had been cast (but only 424 ballots were available), still voted in "favor of Mr. Roy. Last week their findings were again brought to the House floor. Republicans stormed that Mr. Jenks was being sacrificed because Mr. Roy is French-Canadian...
McCall also helped the G-men find the ransom money. All but $5 of the $10,000 was recovered. McCall admitted taking that, but not the child...
Enthusiastic biographers often go out of their way to find reasons for praising their subjects. But few have wandered so far afield as Tom. Antongini, once secretary to the late Gabriele D'Annunzio. To praise of D'Annunzio as poet, novelist, war hero and conqueror of Fiume, he adds praise of D'Annunzio as a politician, businessman, husband, father, and hero of many highly,publicized love affairs. He praises D'Annunzio's "savage modesty" and his desire not to have company in the bathroom when he was taking a bath. He even praises...