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...death and obsequies of Secretary of the Navy Swanson last week delayed the Neutrality war between President and Congress. It also opened up a new political vista. Mentioned to fill the Navy vacancy, or the No. 2 job there after moving up Acting Secretary Charles Edison, was Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, newly famed for smacking down villainous Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City (TIME, April 17, et seq.). Mr. Stark, an Annapolis graduate, is now high on the White House's list of 1940 prospects. Calling him for duty at Washington would...
...long-nosed Southern politician, weak from fever, stood on the deck of the cruiser Indianapolis just outside New York Harbor and proudly saluted 81 steel-gray warships in the mightiest display of naval strength ever to pass before a President. By then everybody but pacifists agreed that Claude Augustus Swanson, who had got his job for reasons of political expediency, was one of the best Secretaries of the Navy the U. S. ever...
...Claude Swanson was chairman of the Senate Naval Committee in 1918 (when Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy), and ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1932 (when Franklin Roosevelt was President-elect), but he might never have been Secretary of the Navy if Harry Byrd had not wanted a seat in the Senate and if Carter Glass had not turned down a Cabinet post. To make a Senate place for Virginia's ambitious young Boss Byrd, President Roosevelt named Senator Swanson to a Cabinet position which had often been filled by a mediocrity...
...refine their work, then last week sweated for three days to pick the winner. Not only architecturally but politically popular, it was a design submitted by debt-paying Finland's clearheaded, apple-cheeked Eliel Saarinen, his broad-shouldered, brilliant son, Eero, and his son-in-law, Robert Swanson, all of Cranbrook Academy, Michigan. Professor Hudnut called the prize-($7,500)-winning design "well organized, logical and reasonable . . . yet with classical feeling...
Good Girls Go to Paris (Columbia), before the Hays office gave it a brush-off, had a Too in its title. As it stands, Paris is just a naughty notion in the head of a waitress named Jenny Swanson (Joan Blondell), who has big gold-digging ideas but not the true killer instinct. Jenny ends up as a sort of middle-aged Shirley Temple, patching up a flock of romantic tatters, curing rich old Olaf Brand's gouty hypochondria with extra blankets and aquavit, reminding him: "Swedes need to sweat." Nearest Jenny ever gets to Paris high life...