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...looks as if the President is due to get a bird: The Blue Eagle is coming home to roost and die. General Johnson's brain child born in a laboring, emotional crusade two years ago is having its neck wrung by Senator Clark's resolution. The Senator is giving the NRA nine more months to live; the President's proposal of two years is too long. Evidently now that the sun is shining, industry is getting more bold in telling the government to keep its hands...
Navy's No. 2. Airmen attached to Navy aircraft carriers do not always come home to roost. Fortnight ago Ensign James Hiram Kelsey Jr. of the U. S. S. Lexington was lost when his plane fell into the sea during maneuvres. Last week Lieut. John Scott Graff of the U. S. S. Saratoga crashed in the Atlantic 24 mi. off Virginia, quickly disappeared with his plane. Luckier was his companion, Chief Radioman R. K. Kelly, who fought his way clear, was picked up by destroyers...
...Doughton had started his Ways & Means to work on a new revenue bill and on legislation to up liquor taxes. Last week it was reported that this North Carolinian, who has grown bald as a buzzard during his 22 years in the House, would be rewarded with a soft roost on the Tariff Commission just as soon as he finished putting the necessary tax legislation through the House...
...Frederick, cooling his heels in the British Embassy, had to show for his visit. Then President Roosevelt instituted his new monetary program and it became clear that it would be futile to discuss debt settlement until it could be determined where the dollar would finally come to roost in relation to the pound. That was the subject of the second, last and longest (one hour) conference which the President had with Sir Frederick and Sir Ronald...
...drive, had sent his Special Assistant Joseph Berry Keenan to help speed up Missouri justice. Late into the night the jurors reviewed the facts: how Walter McGee, Oregon ex-convict, with an accomplice had taken the girl from her bath to a filthy cellar once used as a chicken roost, had kept her chained to the wall for 29 hours; how they had negotiated for a $60,000 ransom from her father and had finally collected $30,000; how Walter McGee, arrested in Amarillo, Tex., had con fessed...