The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-19

signs of yearning to go back to the senate.
 It happens that dry, Republi- can Roscoe Patterson is up for reelection this year, and Reeds friends are urging him to enter the race. Most eager of all is his new wife, tho former Nell Don- nelly, wealthy Kansas City dress manufacturer, whom Reed res- cued from kidnapers last year.
 To this budding ambition is attributed Reeds sudden ap- pearance as counsel, for good Doctor Wirt. A master publicist and grand-stander, Reed saw possibilities for breaking into the headlines, and he never has been known to pass up such an opportunity. LEHMAN
 Whether Reed losses his hat back into the ring remains to be seen. Meanwhile his presence in Washington has revived all the anecdotes which surround his many years on Capitol Hill. One concerns Reeds attempt to entertain bald Atlee Pomerene, of Ohio, when the latter first came to the senate.
 Steering the new solon to a nearby bar, Reed suggested:
 Have a drink?"
 "Ncver drink"
 "Have cigar?" persisted Reed.
 "Neyer smoke" said Pomer- enc.
 Amazed and disgusted, Reed blurted out:
 "SenatOr, what In hell do you do to smell like a man?"
 MERRY-GO.ROUND
 Nebraska's veteran champion, Senator George Norris, is the most modest of men. But of one thing he is privately most proud, his booming bass voice. He loves to sing, never passes up an invitation to join @ dNartet. Norris favorites are light opera melodies; he detests jazz, is handy with the accordion, but never plays 1t outside the privacy iof his home. The federal food and drug administration is Investigating number of cure- alls, unscrupulously trying to capitalize on the presidents con- nection with the Warm Springs waters by using that name. One product, advertised as a compound dervied from the Warm Springs waters, was found on examination to con- sist chiefly of Glabuer's salts, a common laxative. Last summer, Senator Jimmy Byrnes created a great stir in his home state, South Carolina, when he and his pet Airedale went to hospitals for operations at the same time. Jimmy recov- cred, but the dog died.
 Acceptance by the Philippine legislature of the Tydings-Mc- Duffie independence act will au- tomaticalIy fix a limit of 50 for the number of Filipinos who s. Thirty-two of the 59 years of his life have been spent by mild, prohibiton-mind- ed Senator ''Maury" Sheppard as . member of congress. He was d IHSHlDcT Ol lHC AOuoO lVI II years, has sat in the senate for 21. He gets to his office every morning by o'clock, is ready to begin dictating an- swers to his huge mail by 9. Representative Robert Luce, Massachusetts republican authority on parliamentary pro- cedure, was Boston newspaper reporter in his youth. with the result that he acquired what he calls the night owl habit" He hates to get up in the morning. The recent White House Easter egg-rolling party was genuinely profitable for a num- Der of enterprising youngsters. Adults without children were barred, so these kids hired themselves out to sight-seers. Some made as much as $5 for the day. The senate cloakrooms are supplied with va rious kinds of bottled water, but in the house, the members must be satisfied with plain iced water.
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