Evening star., 1937-11-10

Miss Janet Richards, veteran WASH
ington lecturer on public affairs. has
retired after 38 years of platform service
Decades before radio was invented and
the Boake Carriers, the Lowell Thomases.
the Kaltenborns, the General Johnsons
and the rest Of us commentators" agi-
tated the wave-lengths, Janet" as two
generations of admirers have known her.
was low-downing national and interna-
tlonal politics to big weekly Glasses" I"
chiefly women, in Washington. Philadel-
phla, Baltimore, Boston and New York.
Perennlally vigorous, the Ohio-born talk
lady" kept her adherents abreast of
things at home and abroad with q
breeziness and candor that made her
analyses unique. Until year ago, Miss
Richards went overseas annually to re-
plenish her stock of world information
at first hand. France, Belgium and Italy
have decorated her. In her heyday she
was political influence in Washington.
Wives OF foreign diplomats members of
Congress and cabinet officers habitually
accepted "Janet's" searching diagnosis of
events as gospel and passed it on as
SUCH
Impending appointment of Dean
Charles E. Clark of Yale Law School to
the United States Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia revives the re-
port that he played a major role in
inspiring the ilNstarred Roosevelt Su-
preme Court reform scheme. New Haven
stories at the time had it that Dean
Clark visited Washington on unstated
business a week or ten days before the
bombshell was sprung, causing faculty
associates to guess their heads off as
to what their colleague was doing down
here. At Senate Judiciary Committee
hearings on the bill, Clark warned Con-
gress 1t could reject the program "only
on pain of rendering constitutional re-
form impossible for years, or indefi-
nitely"
Senor Raul Diez de Medina, we'll
known in Washington diplomatic and
newspaper circles as a Latin American
authority under the pen name of CASTOR
Nerval. has been appointed first secre-
tary OF the Bolivian Legation. The son
and grandson of former Bolivian Min
listers to the United States, he himself
was once connected with the establish
ment which he now rejoins Senior de
Medina took postgraduate course at
Georgetown and has lectured through
out the country on inter-American prob
lens. He Is the author of two books
Autopsy of the Monroe Doctrine" and
"A New Deal in Pan-Americanism."
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Half dozen sobriquets are coined for
Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of Arizona
in the current Golfers Weekly by its
Washington correspondent, George Creel.
Entitled "Coconino Cloudburst," the
article also dubs the chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee the "Silver-
Tongued Sunbeam of the Painted Des-
ert," the Arizona Avalanche" and the
big ell-Roaring Wind of the West"
According to Creel, "the Senate has had
many normal articulate members, but,
compared to The Ashurst, all were
broken-winded Sufferers. After long
years of Intellectual competition, even
such a master of multiloquence as j.
Ham Lewis has been forced to fall at the
feet of the tall Arizonian and pay
homage"
Chairman McNinch of the Federal
Communications Commission confesses
an ambition not only to purge radio of
politics, but to purify" programs. Mu-
sically, internationally, spiritually and
educationally, he thinks there's room for
vast improvement.
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