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...with a quick twangy tongue, he served four years in the Texas Legislature, five years as a local district attorney. Elected to Congress in 1928, he refused to be suppressed with other obscure newcomers. Insistently he demanded that the Government cash its soldier bonus certificates in full. Secretary Mellon tut-tutted him as a wild young man. But Congressman Patman kept harping away on his issue until he had started a backfire among the veteran vote that was stopped only when Congress, over the President's veto, raised the loan value of bonus certificates to 50%. In that fight...
...Chicago's Black Belt, police evicted a colored woman from her flat. Instantly a crowd estimated at 3.000 gathered in the street. Evidently led by Communist agitators, shouting 'Tut that furniture back!" and "We want something to eat!" they rushed the constables. Casualties: three Negroes killed, 20 Negroes and whites injured. Mayor Anton Cermak ordered further evictions to cease. ¶Near Pointe-a-la-Hache, La., occurred Lynching No. 4 for the year. The victim, Oscar Livingston, 23, had been jailed on a charge of attempted rape of a young white woman. Eight days after his incarceration...
...Norway, where Peace perches upon every altar of a pensive people, the action of the Arctic Council embarrassed everyone exceedingly, led to no end of tut-tutting. In the Storting (Parliament) Speaker Hambro declared: "It is important that the country and the government be not further compromised by the Arctic Council. ... Its action has called forth comment by no means flattering to Norway...
Ever since its exhibition at London's Leicester Galleries two months ago, Sculptor Jacob Epstein's white marble Genesis has moved critics and letters-to-the-Times writers to a frenzy of denunciation. "You white foulness!" the Daily Express called it. Punch published tut-tutting cartoons. Last week the U. S. art world learned that the tide had turned. Genesis had found favorable reviews, and a purchaser. Opined the Manchester Guardian...
...Land. The Norwegian Elkhound Association of America, which met the dog at the boat, had purchased it from Dr. Dyrlage T. Hemsen, one of Norway's most famed dog breeders. They planned to present it to President Hoover to take the place of the late German shepherd King Tut (TIME, June 13). Pedigree papers were sent at once to the Department of Agriculture to be certified. Dugal Guy Campbell, secretary of the Norwegian Elkhound Association, informed President Hoover that he had something for him, was received at the White House. Norwegian elkhounds are scarce in U. S., common...