Evening star., 1935-01-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

other days included Edward Everett
Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Joseph
H. Choate. Theodore Roosevelt,
Charles Francis Adams, Larz Ander-
son, Owen Wister and Gen. Leonard
Wood. To belong to "the Fly" is a
much-coveted Harvard distinction.
First organized as chapter of Greek
letter fraternity and literary organ
ization. it eventually became a purely
social club.
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Even the Nations Capital is not
immune from the craze to crash the
gate at the Hauptmann trial. Offices
of various New Jersey members of
Congress, especially those of Senators
Barbour and Moore, have been hear
ing from WashingtonianS, including
an occasional member of Congress,
anxious to occupy ringside seats. The
Capitol eagerly Graves the end of
the Pennington show in order that
House and Senate may regain the
center Of the national stage. Be-
tween the Supreme Court and Haupt-
mann, Congress has been a sadly
neglected institution so far in 1885.
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DR.. Rex Tugwell, Undersecretary
of Agriculture, who is still ranking
member of the Brain Trust, is back
from New York after having been
guest Of honor at a dinner of the
Committee for Economic Recovery,
where he fraternized with business
leaders Of the metropolis, New Eng
land and the Middle West. 1t was
an executive session without formal
speeches and everything was off the
record. During the next few months
some so similar dinners will be held
throughout the country The pur-
pose is to bring business executives
together with Government repre-
sentatlves for heart-to-heart discus
sion OF recovery-speeding co-opera-
tion.
President Roosevelt's second home
as he frequently denominates the
State of Georgia, proved rather faith
less to him during the late congress
s1onal unpleasantness. In the House
vote on the work relief bill exactly
half of the Georgia delegation of 10
members, led by Representative E. E.
Cox, Democrat, voted against the bill,
accounting for so per cent of the total
Democratic opposition Democratic
Senate insurgents against the World
Court resolution included Senator
Richard B. Russell of Georgia, former
Governor of the State and chairman
OF the Roosevelt delegation at Chicago
in 1882. Senator George, senior Sen
ator from Georgia, voted for the Court.
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Lieut.. Col. George v. Strong of
the general staff of the United States
Army Is Uncle Sans battle-scarred
disarmament veteran. He is still as
signed to Geneva, where he has been
on duty continuously since the incep-
tion of the General Disarmament
Conference, in February, 1892. Pre-
vlously, Col. Strong took part in the
1925 Traffic in Arms Conference and
the 1926 Preparatory Disarmament
Commission of the League of Nations.
No military man in the world today
knows the disarmament problem, in
all its thorny and insoluble aspects,
more thoroughly than Strong. At
tached to the Infantry branch of the
Army, he rates, while on service at
Geneva, as a military adviser of the
State Department. Graduate of West
Point, the Army War College, the
Infantry School and the General Staff
School, Col. Strong is also a lawyer,
having long served in the judge advo-
cate generals division. He holds an
LII. B. degree from Northwestern
University. During the World War
he was awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal and became a cheva-
her of the Legion of Honor.
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