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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent Governor Marland the President was most polite. Upon Gomer Smith, loud exploiter of Townsend Plan promises, he cracked down by inference, quoting Roosevelt I on the "lunatic fringe." Senator Thomas was allowed to ride on the Presidential train (but so was Governor Marland), was called "my old friend," described as "of enormous help ... in keeping me advised as to the needs of the State...
...Harry Hopkins is in politics as a lifetime social worker, who wants the Roosevelt Administration to succeed so that his plan for permanent work relief may be established. Last week he was able to deny righteously that some paper bags marked "Donated by a friend of Senator Alben W. Barkley" and given away near a WPA depot in Kentucky, were a campaign come-on fostered by WPA. Also he could deny any great consequences issuing from his most publicized political acts so far this year: plumping for Otha D. Wearin's nomination for the Senate in Iowa, and whitewashing...
...political favors." He found that all the Range towns had a teacher exchange system "more or less on the plan of 'you hire the daughter of the president of our school board and we'll hire the cousin of your superintendent's wife's friend.' " The American Federation of Teachers also investigated the case of hapless Harold Sivula, Gilbert high-school teacher. Mr. Sivula, when he arrived in Gilbert, went to board in a house recommended by the school-board president. His wife's baby was delivered by a doctor on the school board...
...girl named Emily Welsh in the family way, and Emily's brother Tip smashed in the side of his head. There was consternation in the poolrooms. No one but Sam could hold the rackets together. At once his generals began quarreling. Just before Sam died in a friend's front parlor Max tried to get the doctor to give him an injection so he could say a few words in the presence of witnesses. Outside on the sidewalk, in the dawn, Art and Perry and Cork stood with shoulders hunched and hands in pockets, wondering bleakly what...
Scoop, his latest, is Caldwell in character, Wodehouse in plot. Mrs. Algernon Stitch, to help her novelist friend. John Boot, sang his praises, asked powerful, shirt-stuffed Publisher Lord Copper why he did not send Boot to cover the war in Ishmaelia. Lord Copper had never heard of Boot, did not want to admit it, told his foreign editor to get Boot at all costs. The editor made a natural mistake. He shipped William Boot, a quiet, untraveled, eccentric nature columnist on Lord Copper's newspaper, to Ishmaelia. There the wrong Boot found many correspondents...