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Absent members of the Cabinet were Secretary of State Hull; Secretary of Labor Perkins who, being a woman, was not invited; Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, who was tripping in the Midwest; Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, who has no taste for clambake politics, and Secretary of the Navy Swanson who, as usual, was ailing. Harry Hopkins and Rexford Tugwell went along for the sake of goodwill, as did George Peek, Frank Walker, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Charles Michelson, top men from many a board & bureau. The list also included John D. Reilly, president of Todd Shipyards Corp., Sidney Weinberg...
...Down to Washington's Navy Yard went the President to greet returning Antarctic Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd. Cannon boomed a 13-gun salute to Admiral Byrd, a big-gun salute to Secretary Swanson, two 21-gun salutes to President Roosevelt-a prodigal display which left Grandchildren ''Sistie" and ''Buzzie'' Dall quailing...
...John J. Mitchells (Lolita Armour) could likewise boast of two adopted children. Down the Coast in Hollywood, many a cinemadopted youngster rested securely in his crib, or romped beside a private pool. There the visitor could read about Wallace Beery's 4-year-old Carol Ann, Gloria Swanson's Joseph, Harold Lloyd's Peggy, Constance Bennett's Peter, Morton & Barbara Bennett Downey's Michael, Barbara Stanwyck's Dion, Fredric March's 3-year-old Jacqueline, 1-year-old Anthony...
...when Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated, Senator Claude Swanson went to the Cabinet. Promptly Governor Pollard of Virginia named Harry Byrd to the Senate as colleague of Virginia's perennial Carter Glass. No state ever had a happier team of Senators. By age, by admiration for each other's virtues, they might be father and son. But they are not a happy combination for the New Deal, for today they rally the Jeffersonian away from New Deal Democrats. Every time Henry Wallace or another New Dealer asks more power, the Democratic-New Deal coalition shakes from stem to stern...
...Zion, Ill. a mechanic named Carl Swanson built a homemade plane of washing machine parts, baling wire, canvas, door hinges, equipped it with a motorcycle engine, took it up for a test-flight last week. Pilot Swanson had never had a flying lesson. The flight ended after three minutes. His condition: serious...