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...John L. Lewis, who in years past fought similar fights in his United Mine Workers and now has U. A. W. as his particular problem child, this meant a trip to Milwaukee. Leader Lewis was preceded by Ora Gassaway, long his able lieutenant in the United Mine Workers, and John Brophy, executive director of the C. I. O. Miner Gassaway, explaining that "Mr. Lewis thought I might be of some assistance," delivered a sober warning: "Take my advice. You have got to cut out these political and factional fights...
Died. Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, 51, Oklahoma's romping onetime (1935-36) "Cowboy Congressman"; of heart disease; in Coalgate, Okla. Celebrated for his ten-gallon hat, shoestring tie and wing collar, "Ol' Gass" declared that every judge should have at least five years experience at poker before taking office, boosted the Association for the Prevention of Taking Off Hats in Elevators...
Married. Mrs. Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith, daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, granddaughter of California's late Senator James Graham Fair; and Henry Gassaway Davis III, coal scion, grandson of West Virginia's late Senator and Vice Presidential nominee, Henry Gassaway Davis, divorced last August by his new wife's cousin, Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt's daughter Grace; in the saloon of her father's $2,500,000 yacht Aha, moored at the Vanderbilt nine-acre Terminal Island, off Miami Beach...
Down to defeat in still another run-off went Democratic Representative Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, whose ten-gallon hat, cowboy boots, wing collar, shoestring tie and advocacy of birth control made him a minor notable in the 74th Congress. Victor on a cowhide radical program was jut-jawed, 27-year-old Lyle H. Boren who stepped out of a Government job for the campaign. Gassaway's chief attack on him was his failure to marry, produce 14 children, as Gassaway had done. Replied Nominee Boren: "Old Noah or someone in the Bible...
...74th House he has to worry not only about Congressmen who made grief for other Speakers, but also about an unusually vigorous crop of newcomers. The House has a new clown in Representative Percy Gassaway of Coalgate, Okla., who wears cowboy boots, talks loud about fist fights, poses interminably for pictures and calls himself "OF Gassaway, the Oklahoma cowhand...