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Loudest member of this conservative coalition with nine of 14 votes is bushy-haired Edward Eugene Cox of Camilla, Ga., whose most notable efforts during 12 years in Congress were confined to peanut growers' legislation until Labor got under his skin last winter. Congressman Cox recently proclaimed: "I warn John L. Lewis and his Communistic cohorts that no second 'carpetbag expedition' in the Southland, under the red banner of Soviet Russia . . . will be tolerated." He also accused Madam Perkins of treason. By last week Congressman Cox had slipped so far away from the New Deal that...
...convention cost the 101 girls (aged 16 to 20) nothing. Its funds were provided by the Juliette Low Memorial Fund. It was the late Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low who, after she had met Boy Scout Founder Robert Baden-Powell, founded the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Ga. 27 years ago. There are now some 400,000 Girl Scouts in the U. S., one for every two Boy Scouts. Outside the U. S. may be found another million Girl Scouts or Girl Guides. According to The Girl Scout News Sheet, Mrs. Low was "handicapped by deafness and later by a fatal illness...
They Won't Forget (Warner Bros.). On Confederate Memorial Day (April 26) the little town of Flodden, Ga., takes a half holiday. In the town park, a handful of tottering Civil War veterans doze and chatter while they wait to march in the parade. At the Buxton Business College classes are dismissed early and the school's principal is surprised when one of the girls, pretty Mary Clay (Lana Turner) comes back to the classroom to get a vanity case she has forgotten. At the town cemetery, the show-going old Governor pays sincere tribute to the dead...
...attack on the important peak and town of Lemona. At the end of 24 hours Basque forces were still holding out. Star witness of the Lemona attack was Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the thrones of Austria and Hungary.* At the front to visit his youthful uncle. Prince Gaëtan of Bourbon-Parma, and accompanied by another uncle, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, he wore in their honor the red beret of the Carlist royalists, spoke fluent Spanish...
...partnership with Robert Lee Blaffer and out of their small beginnings grew Humble Oil Co., the mighty company which Standard now controls. Mr. Parish's official residence is still Houston, though he lives most of the time on Park Avenue, Manhattan. He likes to shoot quail in Thomasville, Ga., where he owns a big preserve jointly with Mr. Teagle.' A powerful six-footer with a Texas drawl, Oilman Farish was made a Standard director in 1927, chairman...