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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lobby publicly flayed him for capitalizing on his personal Congressional contacts. Laughing off a scandal which would have buried a less brazen politician, he wriggled into the Senate in 1916 when Indiana's Benjamin Shively suddenly died. There as an Old Guardsman he has served continuously since. Twice he defeated the late Thomas Taggart, Indiana's Democratic boss, to hold his seat. For political support he has shrewdly ridden every popular wind, from the Anti-Saloon League to the Ku Klux Klan which has blown over the Indiana electorate. A fixture at most G. O. P. national conventions...
...Messieurs, I am too much of a philosopher to worry about the possibility of my Government falling. I have already experienced it twice. Being Premier in France is very much like being a steeplechase jockey. Half the skill is in knowing how to fall...
Died. Daniel H. Hickey, 56, trainer of boxers (Robert Fitzsimmons, Paul Berlenbach, Mike McTigue, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson); of septic poisoning from an infected tooth; in Jackson Heights, N. Y. Sparring on the stage with Fitzsimmons, he accepted a knockout blow in the same place twice daily until, dazed, he asked Fitzsimmons to hit him on the other side of the head. Still dazed, he left the stage, died rich from managing Berlenbach...
...being a Prohibition agent; the barkeeper thought it was a good joke till Izzy arrested him. When he had become a household word, a suspicious doorkeeper let him in immediately with ribald laughter when he announced who he was. The potency of his name swelled to such proportions that twice in one day barkeepers fainted (he says) when he introduced himself...
...reality. Congress has already permitted veterans to borrow on their bonus certificates a sum practically equal to what would have been the amount of the bonus if payed in 1926. The Legion, entirely overlooking the compound interest involved in the 1945 payments, asks in effect that the government pay twice as much as it owes...