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...white eyebrows crinkled with disgust, John Nance Garner one day last week threw down the magazine he had been reading, summoned Indiana's Sherman Minton to take the chair, stalked deliberately out of the U. S. Senate. Senator Minton settled down with a copy of Many Laughs For Many Days, by Humorist Irvin S. Cobb, tried to ignore the speech being made by Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore (''The Man") Bilbo. For 27 hours and 45 minutes before Senator Bilbo arose, the Senate floor had been occupied by Louisiana's bushy-haired little Allen J. Ellender...
...pneumonia." As Pennsylvania's deer-hunting season opened, Vice President John Nance Garner posed for photographers with a shotgun, set forth with nine Senators, shot down a 120-pound four-point buck, hoisted the carcass over his shoulders, posed some more until Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton cracked: "That deer's been photographed so much it's got Kleig eyes...
Having announced that PWA and RFC would make no further commitments, he was visited by Indiana's New Deal Senator, Sherman Minton. Mr. Minton left the White House, telling reporters ruefully: "I asked for a hell of a lot of PWA money and didn't get a dime...
...George VI is one, the hobby has developed in the U. S. mostly during the past ten years. U. S. devotees include a number of cinema people, notably Wallace Beery and Rod La Rocque, Vincent Astor is another. The finest model systems in the U. S. are credited to Minton Cronkhite of San Marino, Calif., who rides in the cabs of real locomotives whenever he can. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R. R. frequently borrows Mr. Cronkhite's equipment for its displays at fairs. The national association got under way three years ago, pushed by groups of Detroit...
Before he left the U. S., Commissioner McNutt had picked and seen installed as his successor M. Clifford Townsend, who is currently building a strong political machine of his own. Recently Governor Townsend. like Senator Minton strongly pro-New Deal, predicted that when Indiana's anti-New Deal Senator Frederick Van Nuys came up for re-election in 1938 he would be roundly defeated. Last week Senator Van Nuys seized the opportunity given him by his Senatorial colleague to make it clear that if he was in the bad graces of Governor McNutt's successor, he still hoped...