The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09

economic conference, has bobbed
up time and again, but not until
recently would the japanese def
nitely take no for an answer.
Marion Smith, one of ROOSe-
velt's new labor arbiters, once sent
bill to the public works admins
tration for teaching law to PWA
lawyers. Smith had come up from
Atlanta, Ga, to try to get a PWA
grant for a sewer, claimed PWA
lawyers knew nothing of law. He
got neither the sewer nor his eX-
pense bill.
Minnesota's ex-convict Repre-
sentative Francis Shoemaker
makes no bones of the fact that
he considers himself a dangerous
man. His self-penned Congress
sional Directory Biography con-
tainS the following: "A self-edu-
Gated editor, editorial writer, trav-
eler, lecturer, farmer and life
long student of political economy,
called the story petrol of Mime
sofa politics with a reputation for
tipping over and wrecking polit-
ical machines"
I'm MOFFETT'S yacht, tied up
u at a wharf along the Potomac,
may be a restful place for the
federal housing chief himself, but
not for his Filipino servant. Late
parties and early breakfasts
eclipsed the night, so he resigned,
took an easier job at lower wage.
PWA project No. 1-1P-1876
is not the Paducah high school
building or the Grand Coulee
dam, but reconstruction of the eX-
ecutive offices of the White House.
Joseph P. Kennedy, chair
man of the securities exchange
commission, once persuaded Har-
ward dignitarieS to conduct a
course of lectures on the movies.
Kennedy, Harvard alumnuS and
motion picture magnate, man
aged the program Building
stone specialists of the bureau of
standards estimate that you will
have to live two hundred years
more before you will again see
any major repairs undertaken on
the Washington monument
Mrs. Hiram Johnson once made
transcontinental telephone call n
the interest of her pair of Peki-
nese dogs. From California she
called Washington wet" in
whom she had confidence to ask
what to do about a case OF pos
terror paralysis in her Pekinese.
XXTHILE members of the cab
w met sit with the President
in the Blue room Of the White
House, their cars stand in a long
line in the driveway; two Lincolns,
one Cadillac, three Packards, one
Pierce ARROW, two Bucks, nine
cars for ten cabinet officers. The
secretary of state walks from his
Office across the street q. Diplo-
matte social functions have lost
caste since repeal made good
liquor available everywhere
Anna Dali tends to Eleanor Blue"
even in dust cloths. The rag she
carries in the pocket OF her blue
sedan is that famous color. Frugal
soul. she is conserving the uphol-
stery on the car via the Seat-cover
method. The cars window glass
is spotted with f1nger-prints OF
small children, SiStie and BuZAe.
EOR eight months the White
Il House has been trembling at
the thought of the repercuSsions
which might ensue from the serv-
ing of the famous 80 beer at the
last Christmas party. When final
" it did pop out, every one IN
the White House nearly dropped
dead to find that nationwide
public opinion was almost solidly
with them.
What the papers failed to pub
lish was that the attempted de-
nunciation of the beer party at
the Methodist convention in At
lantic City was inspired Gin fertile
soil. to be surel by several sources
very close to the Republican po-
litical throne. Despite General
Billy Mitchell'S~ demand for more
airShips, none is on the horizon.
Navy Secretary Swanson is con-
WINGED they're of no great mill
tary value. and that their cost
should be spent on airplanes.
The federal aviation commission
studying the army air corps. will