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...JOHN H. JOUETT New York City...
Americans "Washed Out." Amid the present withdrawal of China's air power to the West, leaving China's East more than ever at Japan's mercy, Generalissimo Chiang seemed last week to have made a most fateful decision in ridding himself of famed Colonel John Hamilton Jouett and the devoted little group of U. S. battle plane experts who have enabled China to create at Nanchang one of the great air bases of the Far East, climate or no climate. In Colonel Jouett's Aviation School near Hangchow over 200 definitely top-notch Chinese fighting flyers...
...League is in no sense a political party," insisted the American Liberty League's President Jouett Shouse last week. "It has no intention of placing its own candidates in the field for any public office." Just to be on the safe side, however, President Shouse filed with the clerk of the U. S. House the League's annual financial report required of all political organizations under the Federal Corrupt Practices Act. Some League investors...
...party whose triumph Boss Farley was celebrating was not the party of 1924 nor the party of 1932. It was both and something more. Two years ago Mr. Farley took command of what John Jacob Raskob with lots of money and the brains of Jouett Shouse and Pressagent Charles Michelson, had built up from the wreck of 1928. Since then Democracy's leader in the White House had become a national hero. While still retaining the conservative South, the Party captivated North and West with a new brand of social reform and economic experiment. But, more important from...
...greatest amusement of all was at the White House. Jouett Shouse had told the President in advance about plans for ALL, had asked him whether he had any objections. None whatever, the President had replied; the League's aims could be subscribed to by every good citizen. But when newshawks walked into his press conference, after ALL had appeared in headlines, Franklin Roosevelt was roaring with laughter. He told how that morning, while he sat in bed looking over the newspapers, he had seen that Wall Street was reported to regard the League as "the answer to a prayer...