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Last week Republican Senator Lester J. Dickinson of Iowa, who knows nothing good of the New Deal, lifted his vibrant voice in the Senate to excoriate Works Progress Administration. Scornfully he cried: "We are told over and over again by the President, Hopkins and Farley that there is no politics in relief. . . . No politics in relief! . . ." On firmer ground than when he read a canned speech about the poor having to eat canned dog-food (TIME, May 11), Senator Dickinson thereupon read into the Congressional Record, without giving any names, a letter written by "a gentleman who holds...
...suit against the American League Baseball Club because a ball batted by George Herman ("Babe") Ruth hit him at Yankee Stadium in 1934. To the defense that some might consider it an honor to be hit by the world's homerun king, Justice Lester Lazarus sniffed : "No doubt, but the plaintiff could not appreciate the honor, as he was knocked un conscious...
...Lester Jesse ('"Dick") Dickinson, 62, is a big, friendly, white-thatched Iowa lawyer who went to the House in 1919, became leader of that body's first, historic Farm Bloc. In 1931 Representative Dickinson moved up to the Senate, where he distinguished himself by coming out early & often against the New Deal. A loud, earnest orator who keynoted at the 1932 Republican national convention, the Senator from Iowa demands "sane, honest industrial and agricultural programs" and a return "to the ideas of our New England forefathers." Senator Dickinson does not drink, smoke, take part in sports or society...
...When T. J. Lester and Daisy Bee Redfern get married, the whole neighborhood turns up to "bell the bride." The jollifications end for once with no bones broken...
Henry Hull, creator of the vitriolic role of Jeeter Lester, the tobacco-chewing Georgia cracker, in "Tobacco Road," who is now filling the part in the play's Boston engagement, tops the list of prominent persons in dramatic or literary circles who form the honorary advisory board of the Harvard Dramatic Club...