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...directing the Democratic campaign which made Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross (now Director of the U. S. Mint) Wyoming's Governor. Finally, a Democratic Na tional Committeeman, he lobbied in Washington for Wyoming's gigantic Casper-Alcova Dam project which was finally approved last summer by Presi dent Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 7). As Postmaster General Farley's No. 1 assistant, Joe O'Mahoney had the Presi dent's ear. Now that he is in the Senate his friends expect him to take his place among the small army of Presidential spokesmen in that august body...
...Representative Keller; Major J. Carroll Cone, Wartime flyer, good friend and campaign helper of Arkansas' Senator Robinson; and Eugene L. Vidal, West Pointer, longtime airline executive. "Gene" Vidal is son-in-law of Oklahoma's blind Senator Gore. Early in the game he got directly to Presi dent Roosevelt, impressed him with his knowledge and ability. Last week, reputedly at the President's insistence, "Gene" Vidal became civil aviation's head man in the newly created job of Director of Aeronautics. Airplane manufacturers and operators viewed the appointment of Director Vidal with mixed feelings...
President Roosevelt last week got a Glass in the Treasury. It was not Carter Glass, the peppery little Senator from Virginia who refused to enter the Cabinet because he could not get an advance pledge on "sound money." but his sister Marion Glass Banister whom the Presi dent appointed to be Assistant Treasurer of the U. S. For $5,600 per year Mrs. Banister will help U. S. Treasurer William Alexander Julian keep track of the Government's billions. As a glorified bookkeeper, she has no policy-making powers...
...compromise in sight, General Johnson called in both sides, ordered them to agree on a 32-hour week and like it. Labor promptly accepted. The shipbuilders were not brought around until General Johnson had threatened to recommend that the entire Navy program be executed in government yards. Then was Presi dent Roosevelt able to sign and promulgate NRA's second code in six weeks, providing for a 32-hour week in shipyards doing government work, 36 hours in others, with a 35?-to-45? minimum wage scale...
...College. "He should participate in politics ... as the champion of great and fundamental issues. . . ." Getting down to cases. Professor John Kelley Norton of Columbia's Teacher's College beat a dead horse when he flayed the banker who was supposed to evade taxes and starve education. Retiring Presi dent Joseph Rosier let fly at the R. F. C. for refusing loans to schools while lending millions to insurance and railroad companies. Almost as pugnacious as the speeches were the convention's resolutions: 1) against political interference with teacher appointments; 2) for a nation-wide investigation of anti...