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...Congress from Albany week before had produced mostly confusion and misunderstanding between him and his Washington followers. To clear up difficulties and develop a Congressional program which might avert a special session after March, he had summoned to his Manhattan home Speaker Garner, Democratic Senate Leader Robinson, Senators Harrison, Pittman, Byrnes and Hull, Representatives Rainey, McDuffie, Collier, Byrns and Rayburn. Also on hand were Democratic Chairman Farley, Professor Moley of the "Brain Trust" and Col. Howe, the President-elect's alter...
...Last week was mostly visitors week at Warm Springs. Important callers on the President-elect included Arkansas' Senator Robinson (short session program), Alabama's Senator Bankhead (Muscle Shoals), Nevada's Senator Pittman (silver), Louisiana's Senator Long (nothing in particular), Missouri's Senator-elect Clark (farm mortgages), Texas' Senator Connally (cotton prices). American Tobacco's George Washington Hill came to discuss upping tobacco prices. Rear Admiral Cary Grayson was told that the Roosevelt inaugural, which he will arrange, must be severely simple and inexpensive. The call of Henry Agard Wallace, bolting Republican farm...
Investigations outside Washington are generally arranged as vacation trips. A ten-day wild life survey by three Senators (Nevada's Pittman, Connecticut's Walcott, Missouri's Hawes) with their salaried assistants cost $1,983,67. Among the itemized expenses were: motorboat hire, $60; mineral water, $31; Minnesota fishing licenses, $22; one spoon hook, $1.25; three sinkers, 15¢; can of minnows, 75?...
...match frequently to inquire of press telegraphers about her husband, playing Ellsworth Vines at Newport (see below). Both Van Ryns lost. Two days later Helen Jacobs took the step penultimate to what she hoped would be her first U. S. championship by beating another British semifinalist, Mrs. Elsie Goldsack Pittman, 6-2, 6-3. Either way the Babcock-Jacobs match turned out it was a much more dramatic final than anyone had expected. The biggest gallery of the week-2,500-knew that it might turn out to be the triumph that Helen Jacobs has been waiting and playing...
...Rejected (11-to-8) a resolution by Nevada's Pittman to query all nations on the Senate reservations to the World Court protocol...