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Second Gun was Permanent Chairman Bertrand Snell, white-haired and white-suited. With the polished self-complacency of old-school oratory he recited the now ironic promises of the Democratic platform of 1932. He spoke under noonday heat to delegates who had spent a night with glass in hand, laboring in committee, or even in the hospital, like John Hamilton, who had had an infected ear lanced. But applause overpowered him after such salvos as "Already the New Deal has cost us the progress and prosperity of a generation!" Better than a passing mark went to Chairman Snell from...
Down the centre aisle through the hushed House, escorted by Representatives O'Connor, Taylor and Snell, marched the sturdy, grim-lipped, white-suited Alabamian. A tactless Congressman started to applaud, was quickly shushed. Speaker Bankhead took his oath with shaking hand, head bowed to hide his tears...
...Alabama drawl: "There were so tempered in the heart and soul of Joe Byrns elements of tolerance, patience and sympathy that he had drawn to him the ungrudging regard and affection of all men who came within the radius of his genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than Joe Byrns ever smiled across yonder dividing aisle." Late that afternoon a funeral train, with 60 Representatives and 14 Senators aboard, rolled out of Washington, bearing all that was mortal of Joe Byrns back to Tennessee for a second funeral...
...were more careful. By his right to decide who shall and who shall not have the floor, the permanent chairman is a real power in the convention. That power the Party leaders last week put in the thoroughly safe hands of New York's Representative Bertrand Hollis ("Bert") Snell, 65. In the 20 years since he entered the House, that heavy-bodied, hard-boiled Old Guardsman, who made his fortune in the cheese business, has held doggedly to his belief in High Tariffs, the Gold Standard and the Republican Right-to-Rule...
...preliminary, the Crimson Freshmen took an average Dean Academy five, 38-31. HARVARD CORNELL McGowan, Lavietes, Mason, r.g. l.g., Doering, Rich, McDonald Lowman, Kuhn, Shirk, l.f. r.g., Doering, Dauner, McDonald Gray, Lee, c. c., Wilson, Rich Struck, Dampeer, Snell, r.g. l.f., Dykes, Simon Wills, White, Litman, l.g. r.f., Downer, Burns, Hughes