POLITICS
Politics Notes from Here and There About Solons and Citizens I By 'OBSERVER'! THE Dies committee last week was told that the Communist, party is training New York subway workers in the use of...
...Mrs...
...R. Cromwell, United States minister to Canada, formaly entered the Democratic: primary for the United States senatorial nomination last week and a declaration of his candidacy was made in a statement Issued from his home in Somerville, N. J. Mr...
...David Weinberg, union attorney, argued in a brief that the law obviously violates the rights of free speech and peaceful assembly...
...How about you going to solve that...
...Here the GOP strategy is to try to find n rormula for raiding the conservative Democratic following...
...Homeward bound delegates from the second Southern Conference on Human Welfare carried with them plans for Intensifying the drive to eliminate the poll tax In eight southern states...
...This column suggests lo the G. O. P. that November offers the G. O. P. not the laurels but the ax— unless American history is a liar or the Democratic politicians go crazy from the sun spots...
...Justice John E. McGeehan of the New York state supreme court has formulated a ! conception of intellectual freedom and thus threatens to create a precedent which merits the earnest and un-equivocal opposition of everyone who is genuinely conoerned with our future well-being as a nation...
...he was not a candidate in any sense for any political office...
...NEBRASKA PROBE The senate campaign Investigating committee plans to investigate ex- | penditures in Nebraska in behalf of i the candidacy of Thomas E. Dewey in the Republican primary...
...In the second test case within a year, the Omaha CLU has appealed the conviction and $10 fine of George Dickens, truck driver picketing the Central Van and Storage Co...
...Postmaster General Farley said that the post of-fice department's budget was balanced...
...He thus answered the proposal Gov...
...Aran, of Hosiery Manufacturer...
...at Omaha...
...In a letter to ; vice president Garner the president said the tentative plan was to reclaim $35,000,000 from treasury investments ! in savings and loan associations $40,-000,000 from federal intermediate | credit banks: $60,000,000 from banks for co-operatives $15,000,000 from pro-durtion credit corporations: $200,000,-000 from federal land banks $50,000.-000 from PWA and $300,000,000 from the RFC...
...The program adopted by the conference included legislation guaranteeing the sharecroppers' rights to organize, extension of social security to farm workers, expansion of the Farm Security Administration, full rights for Negroes and immediate pardon for the Scott.sborough boys...
...Cue comes from "silver congressmen" who appear not particularly interested, as the measure does not touch their direct concern: purchase of domestic silver at above-world prices...
...Can anybody remember when the radicals were in chaise...
...During the conference the 1,000 white and Negro delegates sat together In the Municipal Auditorium...
...A lawsuit has been filed in Indiana to restrain the "Two Per cent cluh" from collecting political contributions in that state...
...Washington Whispers": Back of the recent meeting between Roosevelt and Farley was a desire on the part of the president to give the appearance of harmony in Democratic ranks...
...B and held without, a chance to t.nlk to an attorney or friends until Apr U when he wiv.s handed a suppnena from the committee and ordered to appear in Washington...
...Maryland, which has been cited for alleged violation of the wages and hours law, is circularizing newspapers with propaganda claiming its purpose is only to give jobs to young men and women...
...Should that occur, Mr...
...Louis to make a ¦ campaign speech he was interviewed by a group of Young Republicans who fired all sorts of questions at him...
...Tennessee CHATTANOOGA, Tenn...
...Consumers league in a letter sent members of the house urgod the defeat of the Barden bill to amend the wage-hour act as "one of the most indefensible proposals ever to be Introduced in congress...
...The secretary's assertion, made at a press conference was heartily received by advocates of a third term for President Roosevelt, who saw in his remarks a definite refusal to have himself considered for the honor...
...The Townsend bill which would forbid further purchases of foreign silver is being quietly primed for enactment...
...Ma' Perkins (he referred to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins) knows as much about labor as my infant son...
...Latest to quit the capital Is ICC Commis-mis5ioner M. M. Caskie...
...Laurent Frnnix of Birmingham, son ot a University of Tennessee professor, said here he was arrested on Apr...
...Rush Holt claims that the administration policy of releasing war planes to the Allies may hurt our own aid defense...
...The Bata Shoe Co...
...Sheridan Downey has Introduced a resolution asking that the senate finance committer study the operation of old age insurance section of the Social Security act with a view of improving it and that the committee also look over the Town-send plan...
...But those favoring Mr...
...A plan to recapture $700,000,000 of surplus funds held by 31 government corporations and put the money in the general fund has been submitted to the U. S. senate by President Roosevelt...
...CONSERVATION RULES INDUSTRY TODAY"—headline in news letter of Natl...
...They interpreted his words simply as a declaration that he was not an active aspirant ror the presidency or any other office and reasoned that, as secretary of state, he could not express any other attitude during the present situation in the world and the silence of Mr...
...the committee stated in an open letter addressed to leading profesional and educational associations throughout the country...
...Enacted in 1921, the statute has been used again and again as a club In labor struggles, yet the state supreme court has repeatedly dodged ruling on its constitutionality...
...Roosevelt said she opposed amendments to the Wagner act...
...Only hitch would be personal intervention by the president who so far has given no evidence of interest in the subject...
...In his decision in the Bcrtrand Russell case...
...Jackson ordered nn investigation of charges by a committee witness that, he was held incommunicado for 4R hours in a Birmingham, Ala., Jail...
...Washington's "inner sanctum" is becoming disturbed at the way private business is luring important administration figures...
...When District Attorney Dewey was in St...
...Speaking ! in New York last week...
...One of the things that will be necessary is to clean out the cabinet...
...WASHINGTON WHISPERS From the United Stales News department...
...The ques ions and answers as reported in the St...
...Hoey of North Carolina that he Democrats nominate him for presl-| dent...
...They were not harassed, as at the meeting a year and a half ago in Birmingham, where police broke in and enforced Jim Crow seating regulations...
...The program first was disclosed in the January budget message as part of the government's plan to keep the statutory debt limit within its legal limit of $45,000,000,000...
...He aligned himself with President Roosevelt's "ceaseless endeavor to find, through our democratic processes, security and a better way of life for the great masses of our people...
...OLD AGE PENSION PROBE Sen...
...We have to watch ourselves a little not to get in an atti'urie of the .utters," she said...
...It also appears that Mr...
...El-anor Roosevelt, who urged federal aid to advance education in the south...
...Barring of Bcrtrand Russell as a toucher In City college of New York is being protested by the Amerlran Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom...
...Among the speakers was Mrs...
...asked one of the group...
...Says Ryan's Weekly of Tacoma...
...Dewey would eliminate the National Labor Relations board which protects worklngmen in their rights...
...Remarks Jny Franklin...
...Clifford Townscnd...
...He said the Communist...
...Roosevelt on his own Intentions...
...One authority says that in those 30 years he introduced exactly two bills—a bill for every 15 years...
...Wash.: "With the Roosevelt administration, we are not going to mix in the present war...
...By doing a lot of things at once," Dewey answered...
...Kennedy automatically would become campaign manager, the job held in '32 and '36 by Postmaster General Farley...
...The issue has been drawn so sharply that it far transcends the particular case or the particular community...
...Actually this partnership, wihch was so successful in the past...
...Funk, candidate for the Republican nomination for Marlon county prosecutor, are Paul V. MeNutt and Gov...
...Roosevelt warned la.st \ week against Americans permitting any i fear of "Trojan horse" tartlrs by sub-| versive groups to cause hysterical cur-tallment of personal liberties...
...John Nance Gamer served in the lower house of congress from 1903 until 1933 when he became vice president...
...James II...
...The statement was made by T. H. O'Shea, former president of the subway workers union...
...Sen...
...A proposal to place two billion dollars in gold coinage would be of little economic value and that minting expense would be wasteful...
...Word has passed from the white house that President Roosevelt would veto the Logan-Walter bill—designed to put restraint on government agencies—if that bill passes the senate...
...Certain inisders are quietly booming Joe Kennedy, ambassador to Great Britain, for the chairmanship of the Democratic national committee in the event President Roosevelt becomes the presidential nominee...
...are getting ready for the "psychological moment" for an American revolution...
...The Natl...
...Dies committee agents headed for trouble as Ally-Gen Robert II...
...With Democratic victory so clearly indl- i caleri and virtually conceded, the i O. O. P. is pngiiged In some franiicl political window shopping, Wendell | C. Wilkie, the Indiana Democrat who heads the mammoth Commonwealth and Southern Public Utility Holding Co., Is the latest Republican dark electric horse...
...THE Dies committee last week was told that the Communist, party is training New York subway workers in the use of firearms...
...Cromwell referred to himself as a "liberal" who understood the views of the conservatives...
...I'd also clean out the National Labor Relations board—from the stenographers up, because they've all been infected...
...Named in the suit, which was filed by G. VV...
...Is not in working order—even after the latest effort of presidential persuasion...
...His new salary is exactly twice what he had been receiving from Uncle Sam...
...Dewey who rails so vehemently against, the Roosevelt administration for not doing away with unemployment as not knowing himself what to do about it...
...Nebraska LINCOLN, Nebr.—Led by the Omaha Central Labor Union, Nebraska labor has launched another court attack on the state's sweeping antl-pickcting law...
...I know all the candidates, including the president, and that convinced me...
...What is the major issue in the campaign...
...In a question period Mrs...
...Hull for president saw no such meaning in what, he said...
...No one man—no 10 men—can capably handle all the affairs of our government...
...Ten million unemployed," Dewey said quickly...
...Anyone who pretends to know all the answers is a faker...
...HULL NOT CANDIDATE Secretary Hull declared a^ain last week (hat...
...of Bel-camp...
...Louis Star-Timrs reveal Mr...
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