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...Beauty rose, labeled "Huey Pierce Long," from a small page and placed it in a large silver vase furnished for the occasion by a florist. One by one, as the roll of the dead was called, she added six other roses labeled Thomas David Schall, R. Garden, Charles Vilas , Truax, Henry Mahlon Kimball, Wesley Lloyd, Stephen Andrew Rudd...
Died. Charles Vilas Truax, 48, Representative-at-Large from Ohio since 1932, longtime hog-breeder, onetime editor of The Swine World; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...Last week when the House appropriated $200,000 toward the second edition of Chicago's Century of Progress, Representative Truax of Ohio urged that Dr. Tugwell be sent as an exhibit...
...Georgetown"-a dig at Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen, New Deal legalites who keep bachelor hall at $50 each per month in an old brick house in Washington's suburb. The whole country, said this hard-bitten Congressman, was whispering about these "radicals." Shouted Ohio's Truax: "They're not radical enough!" Stolid Representative Mapes of the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, which reported the bill, doggedly claimed that it was "the work of the committee and no one else." Congressman Pettengill interrupted to say that the New York Stock Exchange "is a sort of financial...
Thus in the midst of last week's House debate did Ohio's Representative Charles Truax epitomize the problem which President Roosevelt's catch-as-catch-can farm relief bill is experimentally designed to solve. For two days such earthy talk as Representative Truax's was bandied back & forth on the floor amid gales of laughter and applause, but without material effect on House thought. Relief for "runty" agriculture was foreordained from the moment of Mr. Roosevelt's election...