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Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Illinois' dudish oldster, who plays along closely with the New Deal, harried angry Senator Robinson by asking for an explanation '"why the amendment is necessary at all . . . if it is already in the power of the President to use his discretion as to the amount of local contributions required." Losing his temper, Joe Robinson turned on him and bellowed: "I can give the Senator from Illinois the explanation, but-Great God!-I respectfully decline to give him understanding." The final scene of the debate was almost tearful. Alben Barkley cried: "I never expected...
Such was the majority report of the Senate Judiciary Committee, presented to the Senate the day after Jack Garner departed. That coincidence lent color to reports that the reason the President had been willing to excuse Oldster Garner from duty, was that the Vice President had grown more and more to side with those "free representatives" who want to kick over New Deal traces...
...platform at the commencement exercises of Jesuit University of Detroit last week a grizzled oldster nervously adjusted his hood. As the name Adam Denhardt was called, he stepped up to become a Master of Arts. What made Master of Arts Denhardt remarkable was not his age (64) but the fact that so far as could be determined he is the first public school janitor in the U. S. to earn a graduate degree...
Knee-deep in snow 10,000 ft. up the granite scarp of Lone Peak in the Wasatch Mountains, 25 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, last week a snowy-haired oldster of 90 named Ed Hamilton fingered a small splinter of duralumin while tears filled his eyes. Tugging at his white beard, he mumbled: "I'm glad. That...
...full professors and one half-time visiting professor who will lecture on the Foundation, Mr. Kellogg stipulated that "the Pact of Paris is frankly accepted as embodying the basic principle in accordance with which the relations of all nations must ultimately be organized." The Foundation, completely budgeted by cautious Oldster Kellogg, also provides for six scholarships, two to send Carleton students abroad, four to bring foreign students to Carleton...