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...York's durable Sol Bloom, 78, will take over the Foreign Affairs Committee from New Jersey's Charles A. Eaton. New York's tight-fisted John Taber will relinquish the Appropriations Committee purse strings to Missouri's Clarence Cannon, 69, who looks like a professional mourner and is always willing to give a sympathetic ear to an Administration request...
...Like a mourner laying a nosegay on a grave, Miss Josephine Roche last week paid the first liquidating dividend of her bankrupt Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., the company the United Mine Workers loved. The dividend of 25? on each of the company's 758,720 shares of common stock came from sales of coal lands and royalties from mines leased to other companies...
...Hudson Duster, Big Frenchy early opposed British-born Owen ("Owney") Madden's Gophers, later joined Owney in the liquor racket. In 1931 Owney scraped up $35,000 to ransom Big Frenchy when itchy-fingered Vincent Coll kidnapped him and threatened his life. Last week Owney was chief mourner at Big Frenchy's funeral, complete with six cars dripping with flowers...
...time Bishop Allen died in 1831, he was worth $30,000 and his devoted followers buried him in the churchyard. Later, his tomb was incorporated in the basement of a new church, making it a shrine near which today is a Memorial Museum containing such relics as his "mourner's bench" and his wife Sarah's reputed corset. Last week in the dining hall adjoining these holy spots, Negroes sang hymns, ate ice cream & cake at a "Grand Educational and Sesquicentennial Concert and Social." The African Methodist Episcopal Church was celebrating the 150th anniversary of its existence, which...
Most popular mourner naturally was Governor Gordon Browning, who will appoint Senator Bachman's successor. Governor Browning, elected last autumn with the support of Boss Edward Hull Crump of Memphis (TIME, Aug. 17), had had his own eye on Senator Bachman's seat, which was occupied by Cordell Hull until he moved into the Cabinet. Gordon Browning, in fact, lost the seat to Nathan Bachman in the primaries of 1934. Knowing that the public does not like a Governor who resigns in order to be appointed to the Senate, he firmly announced last week that he would...