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...Jasper McLevy, long-time Socialist Mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., who never finished high school, was made a Doctor of Municipal Administration by Wesleyan...
...Governor was touched. At his regular Sunday-night broadcast, he asked his listeners to pray, then send him their advice on what he should do. Meanwhile, from his farm in Jasper County, Tex., Representative Martin Dies, 39, a mighty campaigner in his own country, announced that he would run for the Senate. So did sharp, energetic, able Gerald Mann, 34, the Attorney General, an ex-preacher and star quarterback from Southern Methodist University...
Below him, in the well of the House, in a casket blanketed by white asters and lilies, lay the body of his friend and prede cessor, the late William B. Bankhead of Jasper, Ala. Before the casket sat Franklin Roosevelt, his face weary and sad; beside him the Cabinet. Behind the Bankhead family were ranged the House and Senate...
Next afternoon, over the dust-deep roads of Walker County, fierce with Alabama's autumn sunshine, 25,000 people went to pay their last respects to "Mr. Will." Jasper's First Methodist Church was roped off-a piece of twine strung from a telephone pole to a soapbox to a fireplug to another telephone pole. Men in overalls and blue denim shirts lined the street. Fans waved under tattered parasols. The loudspeaker brayed a prayer. Sweat-stained hats came off; the crowd's murmur hushed. Children scuffed their feet in the dusty heat...
...Attended the State funeral of Speaker Bankhead; with members of his Cabinet and top administrators left on a special train for the Jasper, Ala. services, and announced that Henry Wallace, who defeated Bankhead for the Democratic Vice-Presidential nomination, would also attend...