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John Ritchie Boyd manages investments, has an office in Wall Street, spends his summers in Buckhill Falls, Pa. As his friends well know, he is a man of probity, propriety and sound ideas. Year ago he had an idea which was not so much sound as brilliant. He thereupon sat down and wrote a letter to President Roosevelt...
...House. Its most formidable opponent was Texas' old, respected Hatton Sumners, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where the bill reposed. The Committee, horrified by the bill's proposed reforms, held a secret ballot, announced a vote of 14-to-10 to table the measure. Congressman Dempsey thereupon raised Congress' roof by announcing that 13 members told him afterwards they had voted for the bill. He started a petition to extricate the bill from the Committee. Embarrassed Congressmen stayed away from Mr. Dempsey's petition in droves. Back he went to the Committee members, wheedled, cajoled...
...John Hammond, pinko, Negrophile, jazz-purist and talent scout for Columbia, WPA seemed insulting to workers, degrading to Negroes. "It's inciting everything that's lousy," proclaimed Mr. Hammond, and took steps. He asked Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. to alter the offensive lyrics. They refused. Thereupon Mr. Hammond squashed a projected Columbia recording of the song, and called the cops-the New York local of the American Federation of Musicians...
...Rutherfordton, N. C., a man charged with assaulting his wife pleaded guilty, said he would prove it. Thereupon he strode across the courtroom, smacked her face. Sentence: two years for assault, six months for contempt...
What Strong Man Batista wants in this election is opposition but not too much opposition. Last March Candidate Batista made a deal with General Mario Garcia Menocal who thereupon withdrew his candidacy. Then the remaining opposition parties got together on Dr. Grau, with the understanding that the vice-presidential nomination should go to the ABC (semi-Fascist) candidate, Joaquin Martinez Saenz, that the Republican Action Party's leader, onetime President Miguel Mariano Gómez, should be the nominee for Mayor of Havana, No. 2 political job on the island. But election laws require that each party nominate...