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...problem came to meet him more than half way: the problem of personnel. Among his first callers was Indiana's smooth, handsome, ambitious Governor Paul Vories McNutt. The reason for Governor McNutt's call puzzled no one. One of the ablest politicians of the Midwest, soon to be out of a job because an Indiana governor cannot succeed himself, he would like a seat in the Cabinet, is typical of Franklin Roosevelt's new patronage problem. For this year a new generation of deserving Democrats lays claim to jobs which cannot be supplied by the simple process...
...allowed to make a scheduled campaign speech in the city. In Chicago, proceeding without delay to cash in on the publicity and sympathy sure to accrue from such tactics, the No. 1 U. S. Red flashed off telegrams to President Roosevelt and Indiana's Governor Paul V. McNutt protesting violation of "the most elementary democratic principles," swiftly entrained for Terre Haute. Chief Yates did not disappoint him, taking him and four companions in for "vagrancy" as soon as they stepped off the train. Enshrined in the county jail, Martyr Browder declaimed: "Our arrests today mark the complete suppression...
...Governor McNutt, onetime national commander of the American Legion, announced that he had "no authority." The White House telegram was passed on to Attorney General Cummings, who sagely remarked: "Apparently there is no Federal question involved. If there is, that would be different...
Celebrated slick-paper Fictionists Patterson McNutt, Grover Jones, Gene Fowler, Nunnally Johnson wrote a story, signed it "Don Marquis," sold it to the 'Saturday Evening Post, to Paramount Pictures. To Author Donald Robert Perry ("Don") Marquis, (The Old Soak), ill in bed, went the two checks as a present...
...proposal to switch control of the Association's $827,000 treasury from the tight, autocratic board of directors to a new board of trustees chosen by the democratic assembly. ¶ Listened to speeches by onetime R publican Representative Burton L. French of Idaho, Democratic Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, Socialist Norman Thomas, refused to pay to have them broadcast. ¶ Voted to oppose "war and military training," but turned down a resolution condemning the Reserve Officers Training ¶ Censured the school boards of Valhalla N. Y., Alexandria, Ind., Corunna, Mich., Lock Haven State Teachers College, Pa. for "unwarranted...