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...subjects is newsworthiness. Thus, George V and Stanley Baldwin have in twelve years each appeared five times. Four-timers are Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Ramsay MacDonald. Typical of the 15 three-timers are Pope Pius XI, General Chiang Kaishek. Two-timers number 56, include Adolph Hitler. Mussolini, Carter Glass, Huey Long, Helen Wills...
...Senate by recessing instead of adjourning refused to tear off the top sheet of its pad, and the legislative day went gaily on. The Senate passed the Labor Relations Bill, gave NRA a shadow-lease on life, approved the TVAmendments, upheld the President's Bonus veto, heard Huey Long through a record one-man filibuster, extended nuisance taxes, passed the Social Security Bill, took a long week-end off over July 4, and adopted the AAAmendments-all in one day's work. Last week it was still May 13 in the Senate when that body passed the Banking...
...King, having won Nova Scotia from the Conservatives in August 1933 won British Columbia in November. He scored a double victory in June 1934, winning from the Conservatives on that day both Saskatchewan and Ontario, whose new Liberal provincial Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn bounded to notoriety as a Canadian Huey Long. This June the Liberals captured New Brunswick, and last week they swept Prince Edward Island, leaving not a single province in all Canada governed by Conservatives...
...Hello, Gene!" he beamed, greeting the one man who is a match for Huey Long in denouncing the New Deal and its leader - Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia. Democratic President and Governor clasped hands and began to chat amiably. Guardian angel of the peace parley was Clark Howell, who arranged it all when the President week-ended at Jefferson Islands in company with party bigwigs (TIME, July 22). In the comfortable air of the President's office Governor Talmadge sat down to explain just how terrible it was that the Government was holding up $19,000,000 of Federal...
Last week in Omaha was made the first formal nomination for President of the U. S. in the campaign of 1936. Maker of the nomination was one Roy Harrop's Farmer-Labor Party.* Favorite candidate of most delegates was Huey Long but he lost the nomination by his absence from the convention. Therefore the party renominated its 1932 nominee, Jacob Sechler Coxey, who three years ago took 7,309 votes from Roosevelt, Hoover and Thomas, who four years ago was elected Mayor of Massillon, Ohio (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931), who 41 years ago led his "Army" of 356 unemployed...