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Died, Representative John Jackson McSwain, of South Carolina, 61, since 1932 chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee; of heart attack; in Columbia...
...through Congress and be signed by the President. But would the House, some of whose members had been badly smeared by the Senate's lobbying disclosures, pass such a joint resolution? To pave the way for favorable action, Senator Black slipped South Carolina's Representative John Jackson McSwain a copy of one telegram from Publisher Hearst which Senate investigators had taken from the Western Union files...
...received his orders to surrender his command, General Hagood last week wired the War Department, got permission to remain a month in San Antonio to wind up his personal affairs before retiring like a bad schoolboy to his home at Columbia, S. C. In Washington Senator Byrnes and Representative McSwain, head of the House Military Affairs Committee, both of South Carolina, protested vigorously but in vain to Secretary Dern. So did Representative Blanton who got General Hagood permission to testify "freely." Republicans in the Senate made a political holiday of the case. Senator Metcalf called it "typical New Deal terrorism...
...Chairman John Jackson McSwain of the House Military Affairs Committee also felt the sting of the President's fretfulness last week. In February, during executive hearings before the Committee, Brigadier General Charles Evans Kilbourne, then Chief of War Plans Division, advanced a plan for seven air defense centres, observing that the one near Canada could be "camouflaged" as an "intermediate station for transcontinental flights." Brigadier General Frank Maxwell Andrews, Chief of General Headquarters Air Force, had declared that in case of war, certain British islands off the U. S. might have to be seized. By a clerical blunder, these...
Curtly last week President Roosevelt informed Chairman McSwain that the Generals' views were neither his nor the nation's, that should the affair be repeated, he would pre-censor all army testimony before Congress. Mr. McSwain humbly apologized for the blunder...