The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-08

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 Senator Pittman is thin-faced, slender, mild-mhnnered in speech, but he maintains better order in the Senate than any other of it's presiding ocers.
 Ruling debate in the Senate is no childs play. The ofdcer in the chair must recognize every Senator immediately. He must have parliamentary rules at his fnger-tips. He must be quick. He can make no mistakes. Pitt man fulfi1ls all of these requite- n1ents.
 Jack Garner, who once delight ed in lOfding 1t over the House of Representatives as Speaker, now hates presiding over the sen- ate. His eyesight is failing and he is much embarrassed that he cannot / always recognize the speakers. So, shortly after he calls the Senate to order he usually turns the gavel over to Pittman, the president pro tem- pore.
 Backstage Operator
 There is nothing brilliant or showy about Key Pittman. He is no outstanding mental giant. He is no battler for causes. He makes few speeches, seldom gets his name in the headlines. But he is one of the most powerful men in the Senate.
 This is partly due to seniority he has been in the Senate 24 years-and partly due to his chairmanship of the important Foreign Relations Committee.
 But more than anything else 1t is due to slow, steady per- sistence. Pittman doesn't want very much, but when he goes after 1t, he usually gets it.
 The Case of Silver
 Take the case of silver. When Roosevelt first was inaugurated no one ever dreamed-least of all the President himself-that he would launch a silver buying pol icy which would set new silver price levels. But Pittman began hammering away at this one issue until eventually he got his way.
 During sessions with foreign delegates to the London Economic Conference in 1883, Pittman talked only about silver. Some times the delegates went to sleep. Once Dr. Schacht of Germany waved his hand as if he would do almost anything to have Pitt man stop talking, and said: "An right, we agree about silver"
 In the end Pittman got what he wanted.
 Mrs. Pittman
 Key Pullman was born in Vicks- burg, Miss, GA years ago and drifted west just after he got out of college. He settled in Seattle, practised law, then joined the gold rush to the Klondike.
 This was to be the most event. ful period of his life.
 one day, mushing alongside a creek near Dawson, an Indian driver tried to cross in front of Pittlnan's dog team. The two teams tangled and fought. Pitt man took out his blacksnake whip and separated them, finally got his dogs back in line and started of again. But once again the Indian driver tried to cross in front, and once again the two teams tangled and fought.
 Red, Hot and Blue
 This time the future Senator from Nevada let loose a string of oaths that was unique even for the Klohdike.
 Suddenly pile ffurs, on the sled of the Indian driver, stirred. An extremely pretty girl pulled down her cape and looked out.
 Pittman took one look, turned and let his team, sled and all, slide down the icy hill into the creek.
 At the nearest house, he stopped to ask the name of the pretty girl who had just arrived in Dawson.
 ''Why, that's Miss Mimosa
 June Gates-HumbOldt Gates
 sister," was the reply.
 So in . few days Pittman
 dropped to call on Humboldt
 Gales. Eventually Humboldt
 Gates sister became Mrs. Key Pittma11.
 The Pittmans have been mar- ried 37 years now, and the pret- ty girl who once looked out from under the pile of furs on the sled in the Klondike still is one of the most beautiful of senator ial wives.
 KlOndike Politician
 In those disorganized early days of the North, Pittman became political leader among the min- CTS. He served as counsel for group of Australians who at- lacked the corruption of the gov- ernment oficials in Dawson. When he moved across the in- ternational boundary to Nome, Alaska, he took part in organ rNh$HS TILT nKNnnn