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...Party was about to rubber-stamp Dictator-General Plutarco Elias Calles' choice of a new henchman to be shoved by the Party steamroller into the presidency of Mexico next July, but first the rubber stamp meeting was permitted to be roused to enthusiasm by Tabasco...
...TIME, April 3), the general has been studiously "doing nothing," having resigned as Minister of War to comply with the Mexican law that no official can be a presidential candidate. Last week Candidate Cardenas not only did nothing but, anxious above all to retain his reputation as a loyal henchman of Boss Calles, he left the Convention as soon as he was nominated, retired to disport himself harmlessly in Aguascalientes, famous for its thermal baths...
...Republican Senate appointed a committee headed by Nebraska's Robert Beecher Howell. now dead, to investigate campaign expenditures. Also last year Senator Long, by a feat of political rough-&-tumble. had his henchman John Overton, a Grade B Representative, nominated (and automatically elected) to Louisiana's other seat in the U. S. Senate. Defeated for renomination. Edwin Sidney Broussard spent his last days in Washington crying that he had been politically raped and robbed...
Instantly cries of "Sacrilege!" "Infamy!" rang throughout the Evangelical Church. Three influential non-Nazi pastors even demanded a rescinding of the rule against "non-Aryans" in the Church. The sounds of fury and chaos rose to Reichsbischof Ludwig Muller. As the personal friend and henchman of Chancellor Hitler, he might have been expected to side with the Sportpalast "reformers." Instead, caught by the news from Berlin while traveling in southern Germany, he sent a telegram of strong reproof: "I speak only as leader of the Church who is responsible for the preservation of the creed before God. ... It is said...
...discredit the record by representing that your authority is limited under the resolution. That resolution is immeasurably broader than the resolution which made a record that threw Vare and Lorimer out of the Senate. . . . Speaking of contempt, Senator, why do you refuse to proceed against Long's henchman, Seymour Weiss, treasurer of the Long racketeering machine, who as a witness treated your committee to all the insults and contemptuousness that could be handed out? . . . The women of Louisiana cannot be frightened off by any such telegram as yours...