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...hotels, Democrats tried hard to whip themselves into a festive spirit. There was terrapin soup, breast of capon, and plenty of champagne. (The Statler served a dessert called "bombe atomic.") At the Statler, preliminary speakers included Sam Rayburn, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas in a fetching white dress, and Alben Barkley. At the Mayflower, there were Fannie Perkins in a beaded dress, The Bronx Boss Ed Flynn -who almost forgot to stand up during the playing of the Sidewalks of New York -and Jim Farley, who got the biggest hand of all when he said he was glad to be there...
Bronx political boss Edward J. Flynn and leading Congressional figures Charles A. Halleck and Helen Gahagan Douglas are among the speakers who will appear before the Law School Forum this spring, President George Esser, Jr. 3L announced yesterday...
Ceiling of Zeros. With their heads in a spiral nebula of billions, Congressmen were treated to a floor show which brought the question of budgets down to its simplest terms. Into the House chamber walked California's Helen Gahagan Douglas with a shopping basket which she toted right up to the microphone. She had used the same shopping list last June, when the items in the basket totaled $10. Now, in a horrifying crescendo, she rattled off the post-OPA increases: butter, from 65? to 82?; eggs, 53? to 69?; two pounds of pork chops ("the poor...
...Helen Gahagan Douglas, 46, once named one of the twelve most beautiful women in the U.S., former actress and singer, who left the boards for the soapbox during the depression. Her last Broadway hit: Tonight or Never...
Landslide? In the privacy of the voting booth, contemplating 14 years of Democratic rule, voters may dump many another Democrat overboard. Then such candidates for re-election as radical Hugh De Lacey, of Washington, able Mike Monroney, of Oklahoma, gracious, conscientious Emily Taft Douglas, of Illinois, handsome Helen Gahagan Douglas, of California - all of whom are hotly engaged - will also disappear. Not only would there then be no question of Republicans organizing the House; the Republicans would have solid, unassailable control...