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...Governor Oscar Kelly Allen was to go to Washington until January 1937 to serve out Long's unexpired Senate term. The full six-year term was to be given State Speaker of the House Allen J. Ellender. Best job of all, that of Governor, was parceled out to plump young Judge Richard Leche of the State Court of Appeals...
...night last week 1,500 Washingtonians settled themselves in Constitution Hall to hear a performance of Lakmé by the National Opera Association. When nothing seemed to happen after half an hour, the audience began to clap, stomp, demand explanations. Another fruitless hour passed. Then a plump little woman with disheveled white hair appeared before the curtain, waved a piece of paper, cried: "This is the most terrible thing that has ever happened in the history of music. I have a check to pay the musicians but they refuse to take it. Won't some one please endorse...
...sucking little man named Miguel Mariano Gomez began plugging steadily at building himself into Cuba's dark horse. He was the son of Cuba's second President, Jose Miguel Gomez. He had been an insurgent "Liberal" Mayor of Havana opposed to tyrannical "Liberal" Machado. He had a plump, dazzling wife. He proceeded quietly to wangle alliances with all the Right Center "sectors," to acquire some semi-radical friends and to find a man with a much better radio voice than his to make incessant radio speeches in his behalf. A year ago it became an even bet that...
Hoffman. Having caught their breath and tired of beating the dead horse of U. S. lawlessness, U. S. editors began looking for a personal Herod to blame for the Lindbergh exile. Most of the editorial pack first turned on plump, young Governor Hoffman, suspected of putting his foot in the Hauptmann case for reasons of politics and publicity. The Newark (N. J.) Evening News flayed him for "appalling meddling." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared that even if he were "guiltless of playing politics ... he has at least affronted the elementary proprieties." The Boston Herald snarled at "the brazenly publicized...
...distract a Yankee colonel, and again in a street when they seek to raise money to take them to see Abraham Lincoln. Miss Temple sings Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms and Polly Wolly Doodle. She also has a new foil in the person of a plump, solemn youngster named Edward McManus, who dances the minuet with her at a children's party, gravely pipes his apologies at being unable to bow low because his pantaloons are too tight...