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Smoldering beneath the surface of the four-day convention was the B. E. F. and its evacuation from Washington. Floyd Gibbons, one-eyed war correspondent, stirred the Legion to a frenzy of approval by extolling the bonuseers and denouncing the Administration for calling out troops to dislodge them, then branding them as Communists and criminals. The resolutions committee with difficulty smothered an attempt to get out to the floor a censure of President Hoover...
Followed a four-day hiatus, due to the death of the Mayor's younger brother George. The Mayor was put to bed with a case of "nervous exhaustion." He could not attend the wake. For George Walker's funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral most of Tammany Hall turned out as mourners. The ceremony and crowds were more a tribute to the Mayor than to his unknown brother. At the interment in Long Island City the Mayor looked wan and hollow-cheeked...
...City Publicity Committee made a proposal last week in line with the teachers' threats last month of direct action against Chicago's delinquent taxpayers (TIME, July 25): Let 10,000 teachers be sworn in as tax-collectors, suggested the Committee. Let them put on a four-day drive for the $45,000,000 in 1930 taxes which is earmarked for the school fund. The teachers could work in their own districts, where they would be likely to know the property owners. Said Counsel Sapiro: "Naturally [the teachers] want their pay . . . and they are willing to ask the bodies...
...deal that effected the Roosevelt-Garner nomination came as the climax to a four-day convention struggle. At the outset after the keynote speech (TIME, July 4) Manager Farley established his clear Roosevelt majority of 100 votes or more by winning delegation contests from Louisiana and Minnesota and electing Senator Thomas James Walsh permanent chairman over Jouett Shouse. But those same ballots nailed down the anti-Roosevelt States?California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia?as a minority strong enough to veto any nomination...
...grants totaling $3,000,000 gold when he rejoined the Chinese cause. That General Ma's telegram was genuine neither the Chinese Government (which published it as damaging to Japan) nor the Japanese Government doubted last week. Both publicly accepted it as authentic. But the Soviet Government after a four-day interval called the telegram false, the work of Japanese agents. This charge Moscow seemed to be making to spike rumors that what General Ma had actually done was to join forces with Russia, accept fat Soviet bribes...