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...vote in 1937 with Franklin Roosevelt's aid. Instead, Senator Harrison chose last week not to run for Leader this year: he did not want the job of spokesman for the Administration. "Dear Alben" was re-elected by acclamation and Illinois' elegant, whiskery old James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis was persuaded to continue as Whip instead of withdrawing, as he had threatened to do, to introduce legislation...
...Francisco's present exposition, subtitled "A Pageant of the Pacific," the board of architects was an all-Western team. Chairman was George William Kel-ham, who had also been chief architect for the 1915 show. When he died two years ago he was succeeded by Arthur Brown Jr., another Panama-Pacific architect. Outstanding characteristic of the rest of the Fair architects, as of the exposition they designed, was their collaborative harmony. Fellow members of the Bohemian Club, august sanctuary of San Francisco tradition, most of them shared a mellow view of architecture and were damned if they would kill...
Columnist Westbrook Pegler likes California so much that he tries to reform it. Critical of San Francisco statuary, he lately set out to improve it with work of his own (see cut, col. 3). Last week he frothed at Los Angeles, home of EPIC, land of Ham & Eggs, as follows...
Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and master of PWA, has established himself beyond compare as the champion name-caller of the New Deal. Last week he crossed tongues with ham-fisted Chairman Dies of the House's famed UnAmerican Committee, calling Mr. Dies "the outstanding zany* of our political history." Mr. Dies retorted that the Secretary of the Interior "literally reeks with the venom of hatred...
Sued for Divorce. Bette Davis (real name: Ruth Elizabeth Davis), 30, famed cinemactress: by her onetime-bandmaster and adman husband, Harmon Oscar ("Ham") Nelson Jr.; in Hollywood. His complaint: his wife was so engrossed in her profession that she "neglected and failed to perform her duties as a wife," flew into rages when asked to exhibit evidence of conjugal affection...