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...Other luncheon guests were retiring Federal Housing Administrator James Andrew Moffett & Wife Kim. Another guest, on hand to receive his engraved commission, was Mr. Moffett's successor and good friend Stewart McDonald. A hale & hearty Scot with the shrewd ways and natty attire of Wall Street, Stewart McDonald has been FHA's acting chief in Mr. Moffett's summer-long absence. Marrying into the St. Louis wagon-making family of Moon, Stewart McDonald fathered one of St. Louis' most popular debutantes (Daughter Carol, now married to a son of Missouri's late Governor Gardner...
...according to their hopes. Cried Michigan's Senator Vandenberg: "Commonsense is convalescent at last." Warned House Minority Leader Snell: "It is the handwriting on the wall." Exulted Chicago Publisher Frank Knox: "Thank God, the people of Rhode Island can't be bought!" Bubbled Maine's Senator Hale: "It shows what's coming at the next election." Only discordant Republican voice was that of Ohio's onetime Senator Fess moaning in political limbo: "I don't see how the strongest Republican . . . can beat the weakest Democrat with nearly $5,000,000,000 at his disposal...
...drawings yet unearthed in the realm of Americana. Depicted in 1,676 black & white wash drawings, all a little more than a foot square and all by the same artist, was a breathtaking medley of scenes and events, ranging from the crucifixion of Christ to the execution of Nathan Hale, from an attack of delirium tremens to the Ride of John Gilpin, from Little Britches left out in the snow to Poet Poe addressing the Raven. Sentimental though most of the subjects were, the craftsmanship in each picture was remarkably good. And not a single one had ever seen...
...world Press dithered because all in one morning last week chunky, pipe-sucking Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin conferred with frail old U. S. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham and immediately afterward with hale old Banker J. P. Morgan. Supercilious comment in The City, London's Wall Street, was that most of President Roosevelt's fiscal emissaries to Europe, such as Professor Raymond Moley, have been "neither known nor trusted here" and that if the President now has any proposals to make to His Majesty's Government he could not have done better than to entrust them...
...will win the pennant by a wider margin than we did last year. ..." Far less confident was Manager Walter Johnson of the Cleveland Indians who, picked by most experts to win the pennant, were floundering in fourth place. Said he: "Trosky has been a terrible disappointment. So has Hale. But I think my greatest agony is Pearson. . . ." The Chicago White Sox, aided by Pitchers Whitehead and Phelps, picked as tail-enders, were still in third place last week, with a good chance to stay there...