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State. As the master of a solid bloc of faithful votes. Tom Pendergast has long been the No. 1 Democrat of his State. But in 1932 St. Louis' Bennett Champ Clark went to the Senate without his help and Boss Pendergast has since had to sign a working agreement to claim patronage only in the western half of the State. The truce has lately been strained, to the dis pleasure of Tom Pendergast. First strain came when young Maurice Milligan, whose Brother Jacob was defeated by Pendergast's Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney...
Died. Viscount St. Davids, 77, financier; in London. His severe criticism of a reorganization of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., proposed by the late Lord Kylsant (his brother and the company's chairman), was followed by an investigation which resulted in Lord Kylsant's being imprisoned for issuing false financial reports...
Died. Hazlett Kyle Campbell, 80, last direct descendant of Fur Trader Robert Campbell, rival of John Jacob Astor; of pneumonia; in St. Louis, Mo. Mentally incompetent, Hazlett Campbell apparently left no will, and his $1,850,000 estate will probably be fought for by claimants...
...these programs is radio's most popular religious broadcast. That distinction belongs to a sectarian, time-buying program-the Lutheran Hour, which in the past three years has expanded from two to 62 stations on the Mutual Broadcasting System. With Rev. Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, professor at St. Louis' Concordia Theological Seminary, as its speaker, the Lutheran Hour draws as many as 8,000 letters, as much as $5,000 in contributions per week during its yearly 26 Sunday half-hours...
...reach. His days are spent mostly roaming the game-filled woods, hunting bear and deer with his kindhearted pa and a clan of big, bearded, hell-raising moonshiners and horse traders. Occasionally his pa takes him to visit a hearty old woman who lives in a village on the St. Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes it on hunting trips, even sleeps with it when he can get around his fussy, practical ma. The idyl ends when hard scrub...