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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: After a public school education he was taken to Washington by his father Charles Frederick Crisp. Confederate veteran and Georgia Representative (1883-96), who got him, aged 19, a clerkship in the Interior Department. When his father was chosen Speaker (1891), he got a job as House parliamentarian -experting on rules, practices and precedents. On the side he studied law, was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1895. In 1896 his father died and he, aged 26, was elected to serve out his father's unexpired term. Back in Americus, Ga. he practiced law, served as judge...
Prelude to Washington's bloody battle was a third march toward the White House by some 200 Reds, led by Communist John Pace, Michigan contractor. It was a routine performance which the police efficiently squelched with much pate-thwacking and nine arrests. One veteran climbed a tree, kept shouting "We want our Bonus!" until police dragged him down, gagged him. This radical demonstration, outlawed by the regular B. E. F. was important only in that it gave Administration officials the idea of blaming Communists for all that followed...
...charges when the Government at last moved to send them home. Taking his first official notice of the B. E. F., President Hoover recommended to Congress a $100,000 appropriation to send the men home, feed them on the way. House & Senate acted promptly. Each Veteran was to be advanced the price of a cut-rate railroad ticket, allowed 75? per day for food during the journey. No gift, the advance was in each case to be deducted from the final payment of the Veteran's bonus certificate. The offer was good only until July 15. The first...
...husband is Adolphe Menjou, sleek veteran of a thousand mannered comedies. He knows how to express utter satisfaction, when he learns of his wife's defections, by nibbling on an apple core. She, Joan Marsh, has an extraordinary petulance. When asked if there is anything in the world she really likes, she replies: "Yes. The roller-coaster at Coney Island...
Smith on Conventions. Al Smith has been going to Democratic conventions since 1908. As a New York delegate-at-large this year, he has behind him a veteran's skill to combat a neophyte's candidacy. Writing last fortnight in the Saturday Evening Post he delivered these matured views on conventions...