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Navy-Senator Swanson...
Early one afternoon last week Senator Carter Glass was warmly expounding his bank reform bill on the Senate Floor when Senator Swanson, his Virginia Colleague, nudged him, whispered something. For a moment Senator Glass looked dumfounded. Then in a quavering voice he announced: "Mr. President, I have just been apprised of a fact very, very distressing to the nation generally and to me particularly. Former President Coolidge has just dropped dead. I think the Senate should immediately adjourn." Numb with shock, the Senate adjourned...
...parley moved too slowly to hold Secretary of State Stimson's presence for more than a fortnight. Ambassador Gibson went back to Belgium, ceased, for reasons unknown, to be President Hoover's diplomatic handyman. Miss Mary Emma Woolley returned to Mount Holyoke College, Virginia's Senator Swanson to the Capitol, neither with new glory. That left Delegate Davis as the lone survivor to carry on the U. S. job of trying to get Europe to disarm. In the months following the general conference's adjournment in July he became a sort of roving ambassador, dipping into...
...Democrats (mostly southerners) who will probably be dominant in the news of the new Senate: Arkansas' Robinson as majority leader; South Carolina's Smith as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture Virginia's Glass as chairman of Banking & Currency; Mississippi's Harrison as chairman of Finance; Virginia's Swanson as chairman of Foreign Relations; Montana's Walsh as chairman of Judiciary; New York's Wagner as expert on unemployment relief...
...President Alexander Zaimis of Greece signed the official Greek copy of the Greco-American extradition treaty, despatched it to Washington, D. C. In Chicago State's Attorney John A. Swanson rushed plans to present an official extradition request to President Hoover...