Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-28

from the Gulf Few members of the
Senate are so pleasantly circumStanced.
Embarked upon his third term, with a
commission renewable every six years
at his option for life; blessed with the
arts of an orator and a sense of humor.
popular with his mates, wearing lightly
the mantle of his Office. he is already a
Senate veteran, in seniority outranked
by only handful of his colleagues, at
time in life when most senatorial
careers are just getting under way. He
IS ranking Democrat on the all-power-
ful Senate Finance Committee and on
the Rules Committee, ready and wait
ing to step into the shoes of Reed
Smoot, on the one hand, and George
II. Moses, on the other. when and if
the scales are finally tipped against the
@. 0. P. And only a boy of so.
y
Senator Hiram johnson Is said to be
seriously flirting with the idea of pit
ting himself against Mr.. Hoover in the
California presidential primary next
year IN the hope Of obtaining an anti
HooVer, pro-Johnson delegation at the
convention The Presidents California
nemesis is said to have no illusions and
TO realize perfectly that a johnson dele
CATION at the convention would be quite
lmpotent- But If he could beat Mr..
Hoover In the primary in the Presi-
dents home State johnson would be
SatlSheo. That looks like a big IL, Gov.
Glnord Pinchot Is reported to harbor a
similar notion in Pennsylvania tn seeIr
pro-Pinchot delegation in the Kew
stone State. Pinchot appears to be
looking further than that and at least
t tio5a Ieaoy 10 head an independent
ticket next year, provided he is not re-
yuneo 10 1901 an the bills. La Toilette
Norris may be Nebraska's fayorife son
candidate. This is the stun from which
mar shlrts are fabricated.
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noteworthy contribution n tho
saga OF that colorful era sometimes de-
a nun the gay 90s, or, more graveIy.
appearance in the bookstails this H,oa .s
IT takes its title, "Peacocks on pa
rade, from its mise en- scene New
York's now departed Waldorf Astoria
Hotei, mecca OF wealth and fashion In
us Gay the Waldorf's Peacock Alley
was the city's most famous Rendezvous
mat was the day of the Bradley Martin
pan, the Seely dinner. Anna Held's
MIX path and Diamond Jim Brady's
JSM~iSd WalSIcoatS, ana when the pres
ent-oay Dig butter and-egg man had
ms prototype in the Pittsburgh mill
llonalres. The author Albert Stevens
Crockett, veteran and yeracious re-
porter, spreads upon the pages of his
DOCK an eyewitness chronicle az the
romantic episodes and the coIorful flo
ures OF those halcyon days when verita-
DIE vintage champagne freely flowed
anc JOY was unconfined and oft un-
refined.
A total OF 1866 emigrant aliens VOL
unfairly departed from the United states
during the first seven months Of This
year. ll,3l5 aliens were deported, 7,ie4
aliens subject to deportation departed
without recourse to legal PROCEEDINGS
ana 65l INDECENT aliens wishing to de-
part these shores had their one-wav
fare paid by Uncle Sam. The total Of
57,876 outgoing aliens compares with
24,8l8 immigrants admitted during this
period. Citing these figures in an adj
dress at Binghamton, NJ Y, this week
Secretary OF Labor Doak rises to re-
mark, This means that for each immi-
grant admitted % aliens have de-
parted. I consider this a great con-
tribution to the general we'll being and
welfare OF the American wage earners
and further demonstrating what has
been done to protect home workers"
gCcDyFight 1917