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...making, to the country. To Manhattan to address the National Republican Club went Correspondent Krock-"Arthur"' to the Presi-dent-of the great New York Times. As befitted the No. i Washington man of an independent Democratic paper, Arthur Krock attempted to present a first-hand nonpartisan picture of White House press relations. Yet before he had done he spoke in a way that may well have wounded a thin-skinned President. Describing what takes place at a White House press conference, Mr. Krock said...
...second time in seven months a Governor of North Dakota last week called armed soldiers into the skyscraper Capitol at Bismarck to protect himself against forcible ejection from office. With a court action to oust him already in progress, the Nonpartisan League-controlled House had impeached Democratic Governor Thomas Hilliard Moodie twelve days after his inauguration for unspecified "crime, corrupt conduct, malfeasance and misdemeanors in office." Everyone knew the real charges were that: 1) having admittedly voted in Minnesota in 1930, he was ineligible for the governorship under North Dakota's constitutional requirement of five years' continuous residence...
...There he caught sight of John Holmes Overton, junior Senator from Louisiana and the Kingfish's short, pudgy henchman. Burt Henry suddenly remembered the day last winter when John Overton, on the floor of the Senate, had accused him of hypocrisy for representing the Honest Election League as nonpartisan. Said Henry: "If you do not apologize we'll go outside and settle this thing." On second thought he decided to settle it on the spot, led with his right. While Overton flailed his arms wildly, his strapping opponent stood off, slugged fast & hard, soon dropped the Senator...
...negative. In self-defense, Acting Governor Merriam espoused, under his breath, the Townsend Plan, a wild-eyed scheme to pay oldsters $200 a month with the understanding that each month's pension be spent in full within 30 days. But nobody took him seriously. Big drive of the "nonpartisan" Stop Sinclair movement took the form of a blizzard of pamphlets proclaiming: "Out Of His Own Mouth Shall He Be Judged." Material was culled from Author Sinclair's iconoclastic shelf of writings over a period of 30 years. These were sorted and directed toward groups in which they would...
Occasion was the G. O. P. lunch which Massachusetts' earnest, broad-beamed Congressman Allen Towner Treadway gives before every biennial election. Mrs. Coolidge affirmed her affection for the State her husband loved, declared it had always found Republican administrations sound, nonpartisan, just. Said...