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The biggest thing against Representative Byrns was that New Dealers did not really want him for Speaker. They wanted a hard-headed parliamentarian who could say "No" convincingly and whip an unwieldy Democratic majority into obedience. "Joe" Byrns, who was raised on a Tennessee farm and has spent 26 years...
Before he could be caught "Master Mind" Pavelitch had slipped over into Italy. The Italian police detained him at Turin, refused to let him be quizzed by agents of the French Sûreté Nationale who loudly protested to High Heaven and Benito Mussolini. Obviously Il Duce cannot take...
Dr. Townsend opened the Plan's first office last November in the rear of a Long Beach real estate salesroom, with a one-legged man as assistant, a Salvation Army protege as janitor. Success was quick. California's myriad oldsters came in masses to his meetings. By thousands they bought...
It still remains, of course, to be demonstrated with finality that the new Board superseding Johnsonian control will not have the significance in its relation to industry and the country as a whole as had the old one. But one thing is certain. NRA as administered under the NRB will...
¶ The three young hopefuls most mentioned as candidates for next year's Davis Cup team are red-haired Donald Budge, Junior Champion Gene Mako, and Coach Mercer Beasley's prize protege Frank Parker. Yet last week not one of them lasted beyond the quarterfinals.