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Alben Barkley was a tobacco farmer's son, a field worker until he was old enough to go to Marvin College at Clinton. He later put himself through Emory College (Georgia) and the University of Virginia Law School. He got his first job in the law office of Paducah's Judge W. S. Bishop whom Paducah's Irvin Cobb immortalized as "Judge Priest." Slow of mind and body, but powerful and persistent, in his career from there up to Majority Leader he had only two lucky breaks: he voted to seat Franklin Roosevelt as a delegate...
Last week, many a Mormon - including, some believed, venerable President Heber Jeddy Grant - was a bit dismayed at how the Security Program had been misrepresented. Facts were that only Mormon tithepayers, and hence few indigents participate in the Program. No WPA worker could give up his job to get church aid. Although the church did get 700 projects under way - mining, agricultural, chapel-building, etc. - the Program was not an emergency relief venture. Yet the Program could be made to sound like an anti-New Dealer's sweetest dream, and was, by such journals as the American Banker...
...miles) 67?. *In a study of eight industries published four months ago, the National Industrial Conference Board found that wage scales in the South are substantially below the East and West even with lower living costs taken into consideration. According to the study, the average Southern cotton mill worker gets a weekly wage of $15.52, compared to $20.34 in the East. Living costs in the East were found to be only 5.8% higher than the South, while average weekly earnings ranged from 15.7% higher in the printing industry to 45.3% higher in the gas industry...
That stirred up the Dutch blood of Senator Van Nuys, a small-town lawyer who spent 32 years climbing from precinct worker to Senator. He stethoscoped Indiana and concluded that his anti-Court-bill vote was one of the most popular he ever cast. He began to talk of running as an independent if denied the Democratic nomination. "I think I know the rank and file of the party. I have been with President Roosevelt 95% of the time. ... I propose that the people of Indiana shall have a chance to express themselves...
After eight hours of shooting, interspersed with visits to a nearby Bierstuben, 62-year-old Herman Mehner, bald-headed iron worker, was crowned king. Unique even in its distribution of prizes, Vogelschiessen winner is really a loser. In addition to filling the ten-beer boot, King Mehner, like his predecessors, was compelled to give a banquet for all the members of the Verein...