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...Malley a Congressman, also made Father O'Malley an officeholder for the first time in his life. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of the sovereign and progressive State of Wisconsin. For the last 19 months Lieutenant Governor O'Malley has divided his time between punching tickets and pounding his gavel on the rostrum of Wisconsin's Senate. Last week he proved his willingness to do both for the New Deal...
Under the brisk gavel of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, its new Moderator, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. wound up in Cleveland last week its annual General Assembly. Work done...
...President Fred T. Brown fell ill. Dr. Dodd went to Shreveport, La. 22 years ago where he helped found a college named Dodd in his honor, of which he is still president. This year he traveled 50,000 miles on Southern Baptist business. A lusty parliamentarian, he whammed his gavel often last week, told the messengers: "Our church is stronger spiritually today than in years. Men are spending more of their time on their knees. . . . Southern Baptists are facing a $6,000,000 debt but encouraged by signs of a great spiritual revival, we are determined to sweep all material...
Precocity runs in the Lea family. When he was 27, Luke Sr. jumped up and seized the gavel at a Democratic State convention, hammered his candidate into the nomination and subsequent election as Governor. The Tennessee Legislature was in his pocket in 1911 when he, aged 31, was elected to the U. S. Senate. The Constitutional Amendment for the direct election of Senators cost him his seat in 1916, but two years later impulsive Luke Lea was piling up an impressive War record in France as colonel of field artillery in the 30th ("Old Hickory") Division of Tennessee and Carolina...
...Minneapolis' Municipal Auditorium appeared freckle-faced, earnest Actress Eva Le Gallienne to auction off four cakes at a Roosevelt birthday ball. Briskly she banged a gavel, exhorted 4,000 shuffling, indifferent dancers through a microphone: "These cakes represent something! They represent the struggle of a man to overcome a tremendous physical handicap. ... I wasn't born in America, but I'll buy that cake myself for $15.'' The crowd booed and heckled when she called for bids, forcing her to knock down the cake for $20. Even hotter than she was two months ago while...