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...President Manuel Quezon. During his five months' junket to the U. S. and Europe Commissioner McNutt had attempted to demote President Quezon down the Manila coast list (TIME, May 31). Meanwhile in the U. S., Commissioner McNutt's good friend and political ally, Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton, was busy announcing that High Commissioner McNutt would make in 1940 an ideal candidate for President...
Died. Mrs. Florence Pitman Temple, 40, wife of Radio Engineer John Temple, wife from 1916 to 1929 and mother of the two sons of President Walter Sherman Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; by falling or jumping from an 11th story hotel window; in Manhattan...
...Gilbert Bratton of New Mexico, Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Texas, Samuel Hale Sibley of Georgia, and Chief Justice Walter Parker Stacy of North Carolina's Supreme Court. In another, three integral cogs of the New Deal: U. S. Solicitor General Stanley Forman Reed of Kentucky, Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black of Alabama...
...were left, men who might be easily confirmed by virtue of hoary "Senatorial courtesy," which presumes that every Senator is a witness to the irreproachable character of every other Senator. Both Senators had been bulwarks of the New Deal even unto the last ditch of the Court Plan. But Sherman Minton had not reached the Senate until the New Deal was two years old. Besides, the droll McNutt machine had put Sherman Minton into office while Hugo Black was beholden to no machine except his own, grounded in the Alabama backwoods whence he sprang. His mind made up, Franklin Roosevelt...
...last week gathered the men who control the third largest U. S. unmanufactured crop export. Largest is cotton, next is tobacco and third is the humble apple. To safeguard this precious fruit the International Apple Association met for the first time 42 years ago in Chicago's Hotel Sherman. Last week, 1,400 strong, the applemen were back at the Sherman with apple problems on their minds, Les Apple Trees Glacé on their tables and on their program plans for using the saga of Johnny Appleseed as a promotion scheme...