The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-05
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.Me1C York
BIZ JULIA BLANsHARD


New xork-Everybody who has
carefare and spare time ds running
down to washington for a day to
take in what Neutrality-suspicious. call
The Greatest Show on Earth
meaning the senate investigation
Of the House of Morgan.
The high spot the other day,
from q human interest viewpoint,
was the moment when ]. p. Nor
gan discovered that somebody had
sat on his new 500 Panama hat
His smile faded. he looked the
out the crown and smoothed the
brin, and then handed IL to some
one who stated to put It down on
another chair.
Here" Morgan said, peremtor-
lily, reaching for his hat, 81 don't
want that sat on againI" Just then
young Thomas Lamont, a Morgan
partner, came in. Hello, Tom
my" Morgan greeted him. Here,
hold my hat, will you? Lamont
took the hat and preceded to hold
1t, out OF harms way, during the
entire session.
The talk around both Washing
ton and New York is that the list
that really would make q sensa-
ton, If published, Is that of the
very prominent men who were Of
fered special stock ana accepted
and then, when prices slumped
ana they hadn't yet paid, WEIGHED
on their acceptance ana let Nor
gaa's firm stand the loss.
Mixed Personalities. s
One Of the most Interesting
spectacles in the Morgan investi-
cation is the personal clash be-
tween Senator'S Fletcher and Glass.
Together their ages total almost
100 years--Fletcher is 75, Glass,
q. Fletchers red nose gets
almost purple whenever one OF
Senator Glass's sallies angers him
80. Glass, who made himself a.
master Of finance by sheer hard
work after he came to the senate.
10 tiny chunk Of dynamite, bitter
fearless when aroused. /. and
careless Of the future, since most
Of his political life is behind him.
.
Gamers Quandary.
Vtce-President Garner has a. de.
cision to make every day Of his life.
It is: what gavel am I going TOT
use today?" More than 400 have
been setn to him, from all over the
U. g. and Canada, the majority
from TEXAS. ..s In his office,
suite, he has several dozen, though
he has sent the majority to Texas
Tor museum They are all
sizes, all kinds. One, two feet
long, made from cactus, rattlesnake'
and Longhorn steers horns and
wood from trees in Gamers dis
trtct "A sleek, small one il
made from part Of the wood from
the elm tree under which General
Sam Houston concluded q treaty
with the Indian. =. .One has over
30 varieties of Texas trees inlaid
In 1t. i. Another has handle
ana fearless when arouse and
grove. One handsome ebony
one was gift from a 'colored wo-
mems organisation
The vice-President, in his office
on the senate, sits at his desk I'M
der q handsome chandelier that
| used to be in the East Room Of
the White House---the chandelier
OF pecan wood from Gamers own
was married. Garner rarely
goes out evenings. He even
has given up the movies. The last
time he slipped into a film house
for . quiet moment or two, with
Mrs Garner, the spotlight was turn
ed on him and he was asked to
take q bows He stays home
now
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Idolized Idahoan.
Fighting Senator Borah now
has q hideout, q private office, with
no name on the door, long dis
lance from his office suite
He's the Dean OF the senate now
has been there since 1908.
Every morning at 1880 the sena-
tor has his tall glass Of buttermilk
He's still the man in the
Capitol whom most tourists want to
see q. Also the man to whom
everybody in trouble anywhere
abroad. particularly in Russia,
| writes. :. He has the most sur.
prising hand in the world. for
such a warrior. Artistic, painter
or musician hands, in direct con-
trast to that rough-hewn head and
face.
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