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...Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa, temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention, whammed with his gavel to quiet the vast babble that was filling the flag-hung Chicago Stadium. He had "keynoted" the convention the day before in loud, oldtime partisan style (TIME, June 20). Now in order were several more perfunctory pieces of business before the main (and equally perfunctory) acts of the meeting could be performed...
FELLOW REPUBLICANS! Out across the crowded stadium in Chicago thundered a monster voice. On the platform behind a bank of microphones stood tall, trim, white-haired Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa, partisan partisan. Temporary chairman of the Grand Old Party's grand old party, he was "keynoting" the campaign to come. Theme: The Depression would have been infinitely worse if it had not been for that "stalwart American, Herbert Hoover" and his Lincolnian efforts to meet the crisis...
...hand. Others might play hooky from the Capitol. Thus Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio had to attend as chairman of the Republican National Committee and gavel the assembly to order at 10 a. m. the first morning. Then he would turn the presiding office over to Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa who as temporary chairman would sound the party's keynote. Next chunky, heavy-jowled Congressman Bertrand Hollis Snell of New York would step forward to take command as permanent chairman, thus leaving the Republican House minority in Washington without a floor leader...
First heat--Won by E. B. Wood '33; second, Lester Hershon '35. Second heat--Won by J. B. Hamblet '35; second, Sidney Gleason II, '35. Final heat--Won by Wood, second, Gleason, third, Hamblet. Time--3 minutes, 46 seconds...
...last week's Kentucky Derby was described by Lester Doctor, betting expert for the Whitneys. The morning of the race he had made a long distance call, been cut off by an operator who said something about "overtime." Lester Doctor said he was playing Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's entry, Overtime...