CANDIDATES SEE SELVES SATIRIZED AT PRESS DINNER
Candidates See Selves Satirized At Press Dinner Dewey Shown Tossing His Diaper Into Ring; McNutt Model WASHINGTON, D. C—Washington newspaper men satirized the 1940 presidential campaign last week...
...The film exploited the political trademarks of the rest* of the field...
...Can-by's union high school received a bill for »39.76 for 2,(520 KWH of Bonneville power...
...will be in service before the end of the yezr...
...Roosevelt and Republican and Democratic candidates alike to a good-natured but pointed joshing...
...with barbed repetitions of his affection for each...
...Postmaster General James A. Farley...
...Entitled "Mr...
...His bill, the senator said, undertakes to bring about an alignment of men with machines to conquer depression...
...Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture...
...At the former rate the cost would have been $81.19...
...The average Canby home had Us' light hill reduced from $2.75 to $1.8!, Lent said, a savings of approximte'y 810 a year...
...Cordell Hull, Secretary of State...
...McNutt Model WASHINGTON, D. C—Washington newspaper men satirized the 1940 presidential campaign last week at the eighteenth annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' association, attended by President Roosevelt and several other potential presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican...
...District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, and Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Republican, of Massachusetts...
...It is based on the theory that the machine could be made to pay its way in terms of human production in such a manner that society wou'd receive the maximum benefits from the ful] employment of both...
...Congressional leaders of both parties, high officials of the Army and Navy and persons prominent in the business wor;d also attended the dinner at the Willard hotel...
...Lent also reported that during the fln-t month of Bonneville power service, seven water heaters were ins ailed...
...Roosevelt, ran through the picture...
...Joseph C O'Mahoney (D.-Wyo.>, chairman of the Temporary National Economic committee...
...McNutt was portrayed as the j "g'amor candidate...
...The president's attendance at the dinner was the first time in more than a week he has left the White House, where he has been confined with a cold...
...and billed as "the outstandingly tremendous unadulterated twaddle of the year," the film poked fun at Mr...
...A highlight of the evening's entertainment was a motion picture written by newspaper men and produced by Paramount News, in which the correspondents subjected Mr...
...Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan: Senator Robert A. Taft, Republican, of Ohio...
...The newspaper hosts made it an "off-the-record" affair, dispensing with formalities and speeches...
...Machines Tax Is Urged As a Job Provider WASHINGTON, D. C—A bill to tax employers who made more than average use of machines and reward employers who made more than average use of human labor was introduced in the senate here by Sen...
...The voice of "the unknown historian," simulating the tone and radio mannerisms of Mr...
...Roosevelt, his cabinet officers and chiefs of major governmental bureaus were among the 650 guests of the correspondents for two and one-half hours of satire, music and entertainment...
...Roosevelt, Mayor F. H. LaGuardia of New York...
...Dewey was presented as the infant of (he presidential crop — a j squawling baby in a perambula(or who signalized his entry in the 1!)40 race by tossing his sopping diaper into the political ring...
...Brnnevlilr dam, compered to a cos of $806..V> which would have been paid ! under rsl's dinged by ihe Portland [ General Electric company...
...For Ihe him 1)111 homes and farms served by the < ity system received 125 kilowatt-hours last month inscud of 6!), enorgh rxlr.i electricity for refrigeration, electric iro-cr, washer, 100 watt reading lamp, and toaster L::r est savings with Bonneville powpr were realised by the W. A. Meeks Hatchery, whese bill dropped from $61.29 to $26.29...
...model for men's accessories, who proclaimed that "every day is ladies' day with me...
...Vice-President John N. Garner...
...Attorney General Robert H. Jackson...
...Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator...
...He said he would ask for speedy hearings before the house ways and means committee...
...Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana...
...The historian plucked the presidential hopefuls from a "political flower garden" and introduced them one by one...
...Big Stays in Washington (or Does He...
...O'Mahoney said the purpose of the bill, which would amend the internal revenue code, was to "balance men and machines...
...City Light in Candby, Ore., Slashes Rates PORTLAND, Ore.—Customers el ,he Can'oy city lisht department received about twice as much electrlci'.y for the same bill during Ih: first m':r.th of Bonneville power servici, Superintendent Louis Ler.t Reported to Administrator Paul J. Raver...
...He estimates that 50 more litalci...
...the handsome...
...C-nby'.s li,?ht department paid $294.13 for wholesale current froir...
...Stores and | other commercial users found theli bill cut approximately in half...
...Senator Wheeler was a' baby-kissing candidate, who kissed once too often and received the "kiss of death" from John L. Lewis, Congress of Industrial Organization president, j Stars of the Columbia Broadcast- | ing System, brought from New York especially for the dinner, made up the rest of the variety show...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 12
