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...Received a group of U. S. citizens, self-dubbed "The Flying Squadron," who came to urge him to rush every possible aid to Great Britain. The delegation including Herbert Agar, editor, Louisville Courier-Journal; Chester Rowell, editor, San Francisco Chronicle; Maury Maverick, Mayor, San Antonio, Tex.; Lewis W. Douglas, president, Mutual Life Insurance...
...mourners were not only businessmen, 23 of whom (and 15 corporations) were indicted for Sherman Act violations last week. There were also farmers, labor leaders, even New Dealers -especially those inner circlers who are trying to help (or steer) the Defense Advisory Commission in rearming the U. S. A maverick New Dealer, Thurman Arnold necessarily regards the Defense Commission as his natural enemy. It stands for more cooperation among businessmen than he trusts, reminds him unpleasantly of NRA; besides, it may do him out of a job. This week, as Washington's defense parade threatened to march right over...
...rushed in & out of the bedroom without knocking: South Carolina's Senator Jimmy Byrnes, foxy, mellow, casual; Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, the eloquent, scarlet-faced swamplands slicker-both 100%ers. Big & little Democrats came in hordes, some humble like San Antonio's globular Maury Maverick (who came out saying "I didn't sit down-a small-time politician like me wouldn't dare"), some sardonic, like massive Federal Lender Jesse H. Jones, who lounged about, cracking hard Texas jokes, made no attempt to consult with the new Field Marshal of the Democratic Party...
...Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State, making his quadrennial obeisance to democracy, forcing a wan smile as the Kelly hoodlums crumpled his creases, his correct collar wilted and even askew. But the second demonstration was given over to the "muggs," with a sprinkling of such earnest souls as Maury Maverick, Claude Pepper, Movie-Actor Melvyn Douglas (who hopes soon to be Governor of California...
...embittered Japanese began operating a maverick transmitter from Shanghai's Astor House Hotel, which set up a terrible clatter whenever Alcott began to broadcast. Alcott told about it. The Japanese denied it. Alcott told the number of the hotel room where it was housed. Finally the Japanese turned their transmitter over to some Shanghai Nazis. Nowadays all Japanese ships in China waters have instructions to turn on their radio buzzers when Alcott goes on the air, but even when combined with land station jamming, the din they set up is not overly effective except in downtown Shanghai...