The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-05-05

AIteT DGInk ktCkeu Uut VI tne
Interior department BY Honest
Harold 1ckes, Emil HurJa, Jim
Farlcy's Man Friday, atill poses
as car OF fckeH' patronage.
Hurja learned something about
the department, took some OF the
records with him, and Ia quicker
to smell government vacancy
than hound dog raccoon.
Whenever he hears OF
vacancy, no has his candidate
ready before anyone else knows
II exists. While located In
the interior departcmnt. Hurjn
spent good part OF his time
impugning tho Botanical Oar
den for flowers and pottcd
plants; also was an ardent
solicitor OF PWA portraits and
other small favors.
FACT FINDER
Behind Senator Hugo Black
and his sensational mail exposes
is n small, ray.halred little
Alabhmnn, Andrew q. Patterson,
chief confidential Investigator.
II was Patterson who dug
up nil the letters and documents
produced by Black. For
mer chairman of tho Alabama
public service commission, Pat
terson ran for governor tho
same year Black made his SON
atorIal race, but was noscd out.
STYLE AND COMFORT
President Roosevelt has a.
strong aversion TO full evening
dress, prefers the moro comfort
nblo and less formal dinner coat
and black tic. When asked
TO attend the sprkng banquet Of
the Gridiron club, the only re-
quest he made was TO BIO per-
mitted to wear dinner jacket.
Informed that II was the
fixed rulo of the club TO wear
tnils, he laughlngly withdrew
his suggestion. Colonel
Lindbergh, at his first Grldiron
dinner, attended In a dinner
Joekct, WINS the only man PRES
ont no nttlred.
HORSE RACE JUNKET
Authorization for horse racing
In tho District OF Columbia
brought from old timers the In
tcrcstlnR information that In
1877 congress formally adJuorn.
cd for n day 80 tho members
could 20 ito nearby Pimlico To
see three great champions run "a
special match race of two and a
half miles, an unhoard Of tost to-
day. Parole, owned by
Pierre Lorillnrd, carrying i0a
pounds TO ia for his compot-
itors, won. The time wnH
437N,
MERRY.GO.ROUND
Since DIR "Eat-and TELL" Writ
skyrockoted him M n rod.revo-
lutlonIst, Professor Rex Tugwell
has become No. curiosity OF
Washington sightseors.
Lust year this time II was
Louisiana's Kinghsh Huey Long;
before that shaggy-maned Sena-
tor IIiil Bornh. Under n
plan being formulated by admin
istratlon authorities, the next
school year may see tho federal
government underwriting needy
educational systems TO the tune
of $100,00O,000. The money will
be supplied from relief funds.
Tho recent visit OF Haitfs
president started n flood of nncc.
dotes about that stormy petrol
Of tho marine corps, General
Smodlcy Butler, once commhn..
dnnt In Haiti. When asked
at that time why only ono lone
marine was stationed MS n guard
ut the Haitian presidents resi-
donce, Butler replied: Hell, ono
marine IL enough to handle any
riot"
MORE MERRY.GO.ROUND
Although only little over
year In the White House, Mrs
Roosevelt already has won the
title of the most Travelled first
lady In history. Since March
4, 1898, hhe has Travelled about
$4,000 miles, large part by
air. Texas gentle. little
Senator Morris Sheppard, author
OF the late defunct 18th amend
ment, seriously inquired OF "A
startled wet colleague the other
day IL n Bronx cheer" had any
thing to do with "A Bronx cock.
tail" After he recovered
his poise, the INTERCEPTED sena-
tor advised Sheppard that
while there Ii no official reln-
tionship, the two not infrequont-
" 20 hand In hand" The
legal profession still holds top
rank among members OF con-
gress; G8 OF the 90 senators and
25t or the 435 representatives
practice before the bar.
Some people are describing the
Roosevelt policy In the far east
as Build Big and Talk Little
as compared with the past policy
OF Talk Big and Build Littlc.vg
Attorney General Homer
Cummings has q penchant for
naming trees on his Greenwich.
Conn, estate after famous men.
He has just named one OF
his favorites, q handsome maple,
FRANKLIN ID. Roosevelt" an oak
bears the title Woodrow Will
son" and three cherry trees are
known as abraham Lincoln"
"George, and Martha Washing
ton" Arizona's tall, active
Senator Henry Ashurst. who was
n range rider In his youth. says
this IL the rule to follow with an
UEUte0 dt~ntbtus a. So ss>"
gun run toward him, If n knife
run from him" The entire
proceedings of the now famous
McCracken contempt OF the sem
ate case have been compiled and
published as a public document
by Colonel Edwin A. Halsey,
Beau Brummell secretary Of the
senate. William II. Moran,
chief of the treasury secret serv-
Ice. which tracks down counter
letters and protects presidents,
has been a government sleuth
for 81 years, Among MS
senate colleagues, West vif-
einia's Senator Henry Hatfield IN
known as one of the most tire
some speakers In the chamber.
In the medical profession.
however. Hatfield In known ar
one of the best bone specialists
In the country. ;. He has .
number of moving picture reels
OF some OF his most difiicuit OBJ
ernfions. loves to display them to