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Scott Lucas, freshman Democrat from Illinois, was another keen disappointment to Leader Barkley and his Whip, old J. Ham Lewis of Illinois. So were North Carolina's Bob Reynolds and Minnesota's Shipstead. The latter said he voted in protest to a placard in WPA headquarters urging WPAsters to telegraph to Senators. "I'm tired of pressure," snorted Shipstead...
Asked about My Dear Children, the play he will open in next month, four-times married John Barrymore replied: "Oh, it's a play about a ham who couldn't get along with his wives...
...Congressmen flocked in. He hastily moved the meeting to a larger room, and then discovered what was happening: Republicans in Congress (193 this year compared to 106 last year) had decided to make it a social occasion. Under the leadership of New York's heavy-humored Representative "Ham" Fish and Missouri's bucolic Representative Dewey Short, they voted ten-to-one that Ham Fish, not Alben Barkley, should head the delegation and pick "a dozen other lucky Congressmen to share the junket...
...your high-school wisecrack dismissals of Dr. Williams and Miss Taggard-writers whose long service to American poetry certainly deserves more consideration than you seem willing to pay it. No one will quarrel with reasoned, documented condemnation; what is really immoral is this arbitrary fixing of labels-"poetaster," "poeticule," "ham" (in a recent "review" of unhappy memory)-and then forcing the material to correspond to them. The pity of it is that you are influential. Your treatment of Dr. Williams' book does much to explain the indifference you mention in your first sentence...
...California's Downey, sponsor of crack-pated "Ham & Eggs" ($30 every Thursday pension plan), was assigned to the committee on Banking & Currency...