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...Well-Tempered Clavichord. For the first time in 14 years or so, the quartet of Pew, Grundy, Martin and Davis was singing as one. The Irreconcilables had reconciled. But on no ear did the music fall sweeter than on that of handsome, handshaking Senator James John Davis. Puddler Jim was in the luck again...
...unworkable plan" the Treasury had submitted in nine years: "It would compel taxpayers to pay more taxes than they have income." Bob La Follette termed its provisions "heresy" and "a hell of a note." To Joe Guffey the scheme was stillborn. It "staggered" Colorado Ed Johnson's imagination. Puddler Jim Davis threw up his hands: "It is too complicated for an ordinary man like me to understand." It was "the most complicated monstrosity" Bennett Champ Clark had ever seen...
...professional musician. Its founder was bass-playing George Lytton, president of the Hub stores. Now an orchestra of 115 Chicagoans, 25 of its players are presidents or vice presidents of businesses. A doctor plays the piccolo, a dentist the trombone, a poultry farmer the trumpet, a onetime steel puddler the oboe. A waiting list of 200 eyes the orchestra hungrily : from the list, new players are chosen when members die or cut too many rehearsals...
...Pittsburgh accountant named Michael Charles Conick got a juicy job last week. Pennsylvania's Republican Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis persuaded Ohio's Democratic Senator Vic Donahey, chairman of the Congressional committee which is exploring TVA, that their job is 85% accounting and auditing; that though twelve experts from the U. S. Comptroller General's office are now digging through TVA's books, investigation of one Government agency by another would not satisfy the U. S. public unless checked by an independent inspection. Senator Davis had friends, he said, who would help him finance such...
...much mooted control over 230,000 WPA jobs is still no match for the regular organization controlling 27,000 State jobs. 2) John L. Lewis' 800,000 C. I. O. enrollment in Pennsylvania produced only 520,000 Kennedy votes. 3) Republicans in re-nominating Senator James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis and nominating Judge Arthur H. James for Governor over 72-year-old Gifford Pinchot cast 135,000 more votes than Democrats...