The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-02

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 Much mystery surrounds the wealthy Michigander's abrupt change of attitude. He IS @ rank ing member of the committee and for months offered no objection to the inquiry. His student attempt to axe the probe is much to the secret delight of the uneasy rail- road moguls and their bankers. .... Windsor-tie wearing Repre- sentative Robert A. Green of Flor ida, who filed the impeachement charges against Judge Halsted Rit- ter, is now wangling for appoint ment to the busted jurist's place. A congressional re-districting of Florida has brought Green and Representative William J. Sears formerly at-large) against each other, and Green, fearful of de- feat, is trying to grab off the va cant judgeship The republi- can committee on national con- Vention arrangements narrowly escaped an open row with union printers. The union complained to Representative Chester c. Bol- ton of Cleveland that the com- mittee planned to have the official program printed by Q non-union shop, threatened to rouse a rum pus. Bolton investigated, had the work switched to plant accept- able to the union.
 G.WOmen
 Vice-Presiden Jack Garner is offering to bet republican sena- tors that they can't name six states their party will carry next November. So far he has no talk CTS. Assistant Attorney Gen. eral John Dickinson once worked at the same desk and in the same law office in Northampton, Mass, as did Calvin Coolidge. A large poster in the main entrance of the Justice Department adver- tises a mystery play to be per- formed by the "F. B. I. Theater Group" The initials ?. B. I. stand for Federal Bureau of Investiga- ton, the Gilman agency. The poster is adorned with pictures of comedy feminine members of the P. B. I. staff .. .. Judge Ben Hil- lard, defeated for reelection to congress in 1918 because he voted against U. S. entrance into the World war, has announced his candidacy for the seat of Sena- tor Edward P. Costigan, of Col- orado As an answer to re- publican charges of WPA "boon- doggling", the Democratic Na- tional Committe is circulating a pamphlet entitled Roosevelt and the Little Red School House." It gives amounts the WPA has spent for schools and education, claims that one out of every five schools in the entire country got WPA improvements; that more than half of the current school build ing construction is financed by WPA.
 TwO.ThirdS Rule
 Though Farley and the Presi- dent both expect to see the aban- donment of the two-thirds rule at the convention, astute Charley Nicholson, political adviser to Roosevelt, says he is not so sure. Townsend chieftains are planning a natoi1al convention in Kansas City in July. Announced purpose will be to decide the or- ganization's stand in the presi- dental race. Unofficial purpose will be to answer the disclosures of the Congressional investigators. Rex Tugwell disbanded 0 conference of Resetlement advisers the other day by saying, T have Q more important engagement. I've promised to take my daughter to the Zoo" When the Washington Auditorium was con- verted into an office building for part of Harry. Hopkins staff, part of the stenographic corps got desks in the Mems Retiring room. Senator Thomas of Okla- homa walks with dIgnified tread these days in new pair of cof- fee-colored sport shoes Rosy checked Congressman Gearhart of California still has hopes of slipping an excise tax into the new revenue bill to stem the imports of Japanese perillo oil, competing with California linseed oil.