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...Washington, D. C, is the Congressional Club, composed of women of the Congressional set. Wives of Congressmen have always been ipso facto eligible for membership, have even been urged to join when they showed lack of initiative. But last week, Mrs. Albert H. Vestal, wife of the Indiana Representative, offered an amendment to the club's constitution which, if passed at a general meeting on Feb. 6, will make it possible for the club's members to thwart the election of women whose right to belong has hitherto been unquestioned. The amendment provides that the candidate must...
...last week it was nearly prevented again. Especial opprobrium for opposition attached, curiously, to a Congressman named Vestal. He was neither a Roman, nor did he come from a politically virginal State. He came, indeed, from a State which during this decade seemed rapidly to be acquiring the title of Mother of All Corruption: Indiana, famed for its Governors-in-jail, for its Klan Dragons, its Watson machine. Congressman Vestal was not a leader in the anti-reapportionment fight. But he happened recently to have been appointed the Republican Whip?it being thereby his job to whip all Republicans into...
...Longworth, Tilson, Snell?had finally been convinced by a conscientious Connecticut veteran, 72-year-old E. Hart Fenn, that honesty demanded passage of the Fenn Bill. Prudence also demanded it since, looked at nationally, reapportionment would slightly favor Republicans. But since Indiana might lose two seats by reapportionment. Congressman Vestal refused to exercise his whip on behalf of the Fenn Bill?although, in the end, he thought it prudent to vote for it himself. There were, of course, other opponents for the same reason?Iowa's Dickinson who would have liked to be U. S. Vice President...
...CARSON, THE HAPPY WARRIOR OF THE OLD WEST #151;Stanley Vestal-Hough-ton Mifflin ($3.50). Before Horace Greeley had thought of his famed suggestion, Kit Carson had made the West his own country. At 15, he was apprenticed to a saddler. He ran away after a few months to become a "mountain man." Soon he was counted among the best. He knew the habits of game animals, was well versed in customs and mental processes of the Indian. He had a reputation for absolute truthfulness and reliability, and was a crack shot. He never learned to read or write (except...
...Author Vestal finds Kit a bit tiresome. Readers will find Author Vestal tiresome for too much apologizing. Kit had courage, needs no excuses. Author Vestal also has an irritating habit of breaking into an Indian war cry, "Wagh...