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...avowed strategy of Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin will be to work behind and through anti-Administration Democrats, keep his henchmen from getting out on the limb of an Opposition with a program...
Three years ago, onetime New York State Senator John Ambrose Hastings, once one of Jimmy Walker's henchmen and now installed in Washington with the backing of Frank R. Fageol, president of Twin Coach Co. (a bus manufacturer), suggested to Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Eastman that railroad fares be "postalized." Fortnight ago Mr. Hastings popped up again with his scheme, took a full-page advertisement in the New York Times to propound it. Under "postalization," the U. S. would be divided into nine zones, and for each of five types of passenger service the same rate would...
...days last week baseball's major-league club owners sat in secret session in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, solemnly plotting the 1939 course of the U. S. national game. Meanwhile baseball's henchmen-managers, scouts, oldtimers, sportswriters, votaries-set up their "hot stove" in the Waldorf's elegant lobby, toasted the crumbs that fell from the sovereigns' table...
...Prague had gone two British Labor Party henchmen, Messrs. Gillies and David Grenfell, especially to succor Social-Democratic Sudetens. "These people must be saved if we have to rouse the whole world" said Gillies and Grenfell in a joint statement. "The Czechs will now forfeit within a few days the claim to the worldwide sympathy they have deservedly won if they drive back to torture and death at the hands of the Nazis these front-line Soldiers of Democracy...
...settled amicably. Each chief agreed to allow the other to retain the "Commander-in-Chief" title, but only over separate districts. Neither is now to give the other orders, although "requests for cooperation" will be heeded. To celebrate this "peace" in true Arab fashion, the two chieftains and their henchmen roasted a sheep and brewed a kettle of black Arab coffee. Just when huge hunks of mutton were being devoured, British bombers appeared and the party scattered. The rebels put their losses at three dead, six wounded, guffawed heartily when British aviators reported Arab casualties...