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...Duke of Wellington, George Arliss gives an able and highly entertaining portrayal of how Mr. George Arliss would have conducted himself had he been in command of the army which defeated Bonaparte at Waterloo. Physically, of course, he does not come up to the heroic proportions with which we have mentally endowed the great general, and when he totteringly asseverates that he is "a soldier, not a politician," we somehow assume that Disraeli is indulging in a charming bit of modesty. The real Wellington would have been less adept in saluting the sophisticated ladies of the French court, less solicitious...
...Democrats, 102 Republicans, seven Progressives and three Farmer-Laborites were present for the first roll call, babbling, backslapping, leading their children about the floor, waving to their wives in the galleries, trying out the new spittoons. First job for the House was to elect Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns to be Speaker. vice Henry T. Rainey, deceased. They did it with a cheer (see below). Their next job was to change their rules. They did it without blinking an eye (see below...
...wanted to thank someone for "Daddy's" elevation to the No. 2 position in the Democratic House organization, Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania would have been the man. Last month Boss Guffey clinched last week's election of Tennessee's gawky, bush-browed Joseph Wellington Byrns to the Speakership by pledging the solid vote of Pennsylvania's 23 Democratic Representatives to his candidacy. Last week Senator Guffey again showed what a power he was in the chamber at the other end of the Capitol from the one in which he officially functions. At the Democratic...
...players were Democratic Representatives who saw a chance of advancement. First there was long, lanky Joseph Wellington Byrns of Nashville. As Majority Floor Leader in the 73rd Congress he claimed precedent, tradition, seniority and everything but divine right for his elevation to the Speakership of the 74th. To that good start he added the still stronger claim of gratitude. As chairman of the Democratic National Congressional Committee bushy-browed "Joe" Byrns wrote letters to dozens of Democrats in the last Congress who wanted to be reelected, authorizing them to tell their constituents that "Joe" Byrns said they were indispensable...
Died. Edward Wellington Backus, 73, Minneapolis lumber & paper tycoon (Backus-Brooks Co.) ; suddenly, of heart disease; in Manhattan, which he was visiting on business. Taken to the prairies as a child during the Civil War, he started in business with 3,000 borrowed dollars, eventually ruled a $100,000,000 empire that included banks, power, telephones, railroads. Unable to refund a bond issue in 1931, tall, tough President Backus lost control. Last January he fiercely started a comeback in the form of a suit to dismiss his receivers for mismanagement (TIME...