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Many would be the jobs lost, the careers ruined, were U. S. Democratic Party Leader Franklin Delano Roosevelt to ape Italian Fascist Party Leader Benito Mussolini in prescribing gymnastic tests for his party henchmen. Doubtful it is that sickly, 64-year-old Speaker William Bankhead of the House of Representatives, could pass a rope-skipping examination; that suffering Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief administrator, would survive a pole-vaulting test; that Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley would fare well with the broad jump, or that bald, short House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could throw a discus very...
Another group advocating the Duke's return is the "Henchmen of Honor," founded by retired British Barrister Robert Elton. The "Henchmen" have appealed to the Duke to come to England, have received no reply. Lawyer Elton, independently seeking to reseat the Duke on the throne, bases his case on the claim that the 1936 Abdication Act, while passed by Parliament, is illegal because it was not a mandate from the people. Fortnight ago, however, his cause received its first legal setback. Founder Elton's statement of claim that the Act was "illegitimate" was refused a hearing...
...week, the grand jury handed down a scandalous 20,000-word report. It charged that "millions of dollars" of Waterbury money had been spent in an illegal manner since 1930. Bench warrants were issued for the arrest for fraud of Lieutenant Governor Hayes, ex-Comptroller Leary, 24 of their henchmen and associates, including the State Commissioner of Statute Revision, several State Senators. The "rampant corruption" of which they were accused: cashing unnumbered city checks, spending city funds without vouchers, splitting fees with contractors for imaginary services, bribing State legislators (notably to get a law passed requiring the use in public...
Enfranchised Afrikander women regarded the poster as besmirching their honor, attended protest meetings throughout the country against this type of campaigning. More to their liking were the less graphic appeals of Prime Minister Hertzog, Deputy Prime Minister Smuts and henchmen, who declared vaguely for "national and racial unity," asked for support in the name of the "children's future." That South Africa prefers a non-illustrated campaign was evident at the ballot box last week when the United Party rollicked over not only the Nationalists but also over the Anglophile Dominionites and the radical Laborites. The standing...
Paris had been expecting for at least three weeks that the Senate would upset this second Blum Cabinet as it upset the first, but Paris was surprised when Mr. Blum's Socialist henchmen brought out a crowd of 10,000, few of whom, correspondents reported, looked like Frenchmen, most seeming to be Eastern European unemployed. This mob whirled toward the Senate, tearing up iron grillwork on the boulevards to use as clubs, but were stoutly withstood by police and steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles, "Down with the Senate! Hang these old men!" cried the mobsters and fell to chanting...