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Leading Congressional tax authority is Representative Fred Vinson, a 48-year-old statistically-minded Kentuckian who has made taxation his legislative hobby. He is the driving force behind the new bill but it will be his last, for President Roosevelt has rewarded him with a $12,500 seat on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals...
Week previous to this pronouncement Kentuckian Alben Barkley had settled down to the bitterest of the many unpleasant tasks that he has had since he succeeded the late Joseph Taylor Robinson as Majority Leader of the Senate. Leader Barkley was paying for a serious mistake. Last August in the closing days of Congress, when every minute of the Senate's time was plotted out, he fell asleep at the switch. Senator King who was supposed to rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York...
...Administration wheelhorse still quietly loyal to the New Deal, 47-year-old Kentuckian Vinson acquired an equally unflagging love for fiscal problems. He need renounce neither in his new job, since the District of Columbia court spends much of its time on Government tax litigation brought before it by the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals, and is a place where the New Deal can well use a sincere friend. For his part Fred Vinson, who remembers his defeat by the Hoover landslide in 1928 after three terms in the House, appreciated as fully as any seasoned campaigner the security...
...both sides is useless and might, in fact, do each country a great deal of harm!" The U. S. Ambassador is a Kentucky gentleman of the old school, and was much moved when the Prime Minister raised his glass with a bland expression and toasted President Roosevelt's Kentuckian in these words: "Whatever else comes from Kentucky, Kentucky ham is the best in the world...
...strike-torn Newport, was promoted to Brigadier General of the National Guard. Grateful Newporters presented him with a saddle horse, and for similar service citizens of Fort later gave him a set of silver. But as the years passed, hard-bitten General Denhardt won the dislike of many a Kentuckian for his use of troops in labor troubles. As Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky from 1923 to 1927, he was praised as one of the best presiding officers in the history of the State Senate. In 1931 his good friend Governor Ruby Laffoon made him his Adjutant General. Last year, defying...