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When Congress wants to stage a celebration it has an infallible formula: the whole thing is put in the hands of Representative Sol Bloom. Born 67 years ago in Pekin, Ill., of Polish-Jewish descent, reared in San Francisco, Sol had developed into a Manhattan real-estate man and music publisher before Tammany Hall, sensing his peculiar talents, elected him to Congress. For the past 14 years his Neanderthal forehead, nose and chin have distinguished him in Congress. So have his activities...
...pointing out that the "hungry lions and ravishing tigers" in the Washington zoo would set up "such a howl as you never heard" if their feeding-hours were changed. Minister Michael MacWhite of the Irish Free State still remembers arranging an audience with the Pope in Rome to which Sol went wearing several dozen rosaries so as to have them blessed for his Irish constituents at home. Later Sol bent all his talents for several years to directing George Washington's Bicentennial celebration, and succeeded so well in indoctrinating the U. S. with patriotism that his wife Evelyn spent...
...ratification, then the anniversaries of the ratifications by other States in order, ending with that of New Hampshire, the ninth State, next June 21.‡ But the celebration will go on to April 30, 1939, the 150th Anniversary of George Washington's taking the oath of office. Sol Bloom was almost deprived of this historic 18-month party by heckling Congressmen...
Republican Leader Snell declared that $350,000 "is a fairly liberal amount to celebrate something [the Constitution] that is diminishing at the present time." More serious criticism fell upon Sol's Story of the Constitution for which he wanted the money to distribute. Republican Clare Hoffman of Allegan, Mich, demanded: "Does the 10? which is paid for these books cover the cost?" "Yes & no," said Mr. Bloom. "Well, yes or no?" "I cannot answer in that way. The publication of the 10? book itself costs us about 11?." How many offices did his staff occupy in the old House...
...International Pressmen's Union and Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation." Another batch of telegrams favored Mr. McReynolds and, strangely, many of them came not from Tennessee but from Manhattan. If Governor Browning wondered why, friends in Washington soon told him. Representative Sol Bloom, who five years ago as head of an official commission celebrated George Washington's Bicentennial almost singlehanded, has as his constituency the upper part of Central Park and neighboring parts of Manhattan. If Mr. McReynolds becomes a Senator, Sol Bloom will succeed by seniority to the high post of Chairman...