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Youth Tell Their Story* is the voice of 13,528 Maryland youngsters (16 to 24) and the American Youth Commission. Director of the commission is broad-shouldered Homer Price Rainey, 42, who was a star halfback and pitcher at Austin College, Texas, became a college president at 31 (Franklin College, Franklin, Ind.) and headed Bucknell University for four years. In 1935 he and the commission set out to get to the bottom of the youth problem...
...Nicholas Longworth have used their authority so effectively as to give the job a lively tradition of being second in importance only to the Presidency itself. Since the departure to the Senate of John Nance Garner the speakership has suffered a woeful decline in prestige. Old Henry T. Rainey and gangling Joe Byrns, Speaker Bankhead's predecessors under the New Deal, were not men to make the job what it had been theretofore-that of a boss, for whom the House Majority Leader functioned as a sort of floor operative. Furthermore, under the New Deal, with lump sum appropriations...
...Washington better equipped than he was last year for the rigors of a job that can be as rigorous as any in the land. Speaker Bankhead's hobby is collecting gavels used by his predecessors, of which he has six, belonging to Speakers Clark, Gillett, Longworth, Garner, Rainey, Byrns. Although his own is the smallest of the lot, Administration leaders were hoping last week that it would not prove the least effective...
...Bessie Smith was born some 41 years ago in Chattanooga, Tenn. At 12, as a protegee of "Ma" Rainey, pioneer blues singer, she was moaning in tent shows like the Rabbit-Foot Minstrels. With a big, vibrant voice which survived even her last hard-drinking days, she sang blues songs long before the War brought the blues (and jazz) north, lived to see strict blues singing yield popularity to the sophisticated torch singing typified by the art of Ethel Waters. But Bessie Smith left her mark on jazz. Hot instrumentalists like Benny Goodman and the late "Bix" Beiderbecke, listening...
There is no good reason why the President of the U. S. should travel to far parts of the U. S. to bury his followers, but politicians are particular about funerals. Moreover, President Roosevelt had traveled far to bury Speakers Rainey and Byrns, Secretary of War Dern and his own personal Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. His decision a few hours after loyal Joe Robinson's death not to go to the funeral at Little Rock was not liked by a good many Congressmen. They said nothing publicly, but when he stepped out before the funeral with his "message...