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...SPEAKER RAINEY'S "Wrong List." Being the names of those Democrats in Congress who have not supported President Roosevelt 100 per cent, may become the means whereby the Republicans will materially increase their strength in the November elections...
There are a number of matters like the tariff, for instance, which will require a difference with the administration. Thus to Speaker Rainey's list of 21 who voted "wrong" there now might be added by the same logic about 90 Democrats who voted for the bonus, though it is not certain yet how many of these will vote to override a veto...
...Last week Speaker Rainey made public the following memorandum received from the President...
...started, kept in a black notebook on the desk of the journal clerk. Day after day Representatives sidled up to the desk and signed. When 113 names were on the list Democratic Leader Byrns gloomily prophesied the total number would be reached. When the list neared 140 Speaker Rainey, who cannot control the House as Speakers Longworth and Garner used to do, paid a hurried visit to the White House, returned with the announcement: "I am authorized by the President to say this is not the time to pay the bonus and he cannot approve any legislation to that effect...
...pound: Hahn (V) defeated Lamb. 125-pound: Rainey (V) defeated Kunen. 135-pound: Ward (H) defeated Cary. 145-pound: Womer (V) defeated Cone. 155-pound: Hines (H) knocked out McClung. 165-pound: Stuart (V) defeated Lawrence. 175-pound: Lee (V) defeated Smith. Heavyweight: Hourihan (V) defeated Simmons by a technical knockout after forty-five seconds, first round...