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...Arnold's war will be no Blitzkrieg. Molasses-slow is the Judiciary Committee, headed by foxy old Hatton Sumners of Texas (who has the Confucian viewpoint that none-of-this-will-matter-in-a-thousand-years), and composed of 25 other lawyers, who know all the ins-&-outs of legal obfuscation. Some members of the committee are of Arnold's mind, some are frankly antilabor; and Arnold's basic underground work has been effective. Oklahoma's Monroney can be expected to steer a middle course between the Congressmen who want to coerce labor at the bayonet...
After taking a Moral Science Tripos at Cambridge University, Wing Commander Straight turned professional automobile racer, won many contests at England's famed Brooklands speedway, became a director of 21 British aviation companies, married sightly Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, daughter of the 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, and in 1936 became a British subject...
...overwork in a Chicago hospital, where it turned out he had been for more than seven weeks. Assistant Joe Breen went to his bedside, Columnist Louella Parsons rumored his retirement. ∙∙ Gloria Swanson finished a picture she hoped meant a comeback. ∙∙ Oldtime Comedian Raymond Hatton got a new part, had the same hope. ∙∙Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 2 (Mary Pickford) and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 3 (Lady Sylvia Ashley) flew to New York together, along with Norma Shearer, whom Ronald Balcom has been escorting when he wasn't with Lady Ashley. ∙∙ Greta...
...House of Representatives Hatton Sumners, chairman of the potent Judiciary Committee, made the jhigh-pitched suggestion that "enemies of this nation, in the factory or elsewhere," be sent to the electric chair. Secretary of War Henry Stimson, with hoarse urgency, spoke of organizing home guards (now that the National Guard was in the Army) to suppress "any labor disorders...
...House Judiciary Committee was concerned, OPM's answer was not the right answer. Said Chairman Hatton Sumners, Nestor of the House: "We here in Congress are under pressure from many sources to act in this situation, because we represent the whole people. If we don't act we may not come back here...