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...Within a few hours of the moment I nominated Eugene Talmadge for President [at the Macon convention], the wheels were set in motion to hang something-anything- on Georgia opponents of the National Administration. My wife was called on by Federal tax experts and made to show every check stub from 1933. They hoped to make a tax-evasion charge against me. Then they went after my brother. ... If you don't bow down and worship the Wallaces, the Tugwells and the Frankfurters, they want to put you in the penitentiary...
...American Liberty League, Alfred Emanuel Smith had violently condemned the New Deal, threatened to "take a walk" on Election Day (TIME, Feb. 3). The official comeback to this blast was delivered last week by the Happy Warrior's old political pal Joseph Taylor Robinson, the Vice- Presidential stub to the 1928 Democratic ticket. Since that luckless campaign. Arkansas' senior Senator had acquired in Franklin Roosevelt a new master to serve and revere...
...morning and adjust a bit of a chuckle to temper it. For what else could worry Yale so that it had to practice on Sunday if it were not the thought that Columbia's Lou Little and his boys would only wait about another week before devouring the Bulldog, stub tall...
...into his own hands, asked for bids on 25 small, cheap, safe airplanes for use by the Government's aeronautical inspectors. Last week when the bids were opened in Washington, only one of the 16 submitted approached $700. Safety Air Transportation of Indianapolis offered to build a metal stub-winged plane...
...Tardieu called M. Chautemps a liar, an associate of criminals and a forger. He charged him with forging the stub of a Stavisky check for 300,000 francs to make it appear that this sum had been paid to a person called "Tardi," promptly assumed by the Left Press to be Tardieu. For six hours M. Tardieu's scathing attack went on. He produced little or no evidence to support his charges but vilified radical Socialist Leader Chautemps to such an extent as to involve the prestige of the Party and of Boss Herriot. Plainly M. Tardieu was playing...