The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-29

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 In scores of speeches Gelrmann blasted Peavey for having his wife on the congressional payroll aas his secretary. g94s st'
 'eThere are hundreds of ,com- petent young people in our dis trtct able and deserving to fill this job," QehrmaIln thundered. Tt is not right that my oppon. ent should give 1t to his wife when there are 50 many in need of work and the taxpayers pay him $10,- 600 a year to represent them"
 The voters felt the same way, retiring Peavey and sending Getr-, mann to Washington in his place. But in the six years that have elapsed since then, Gehrmanr1's crusading ardor has undergone ay marked change. es. \.
 He who once so riehteously de-s nounced the gravy bowl now is in It up to his elbows. Here's his repotisn1 rpster: s v
 Arthur Gehrmann, son; clerk in {, the Farm Security Administration office at Neillsville, Wis, $1,440. '
 Joseph Gehrmann, son, eco camp foreman at Baraboo, Wis.,, s1,54O.
 victor Gehrmann, son, clerk in Indian Division of the tCCC at i Cass Lake, Minn., $1,66O.
 Dorothy Gehrmann, daughter, until recently PWA clerk in Chi cago, $1,440. e,s
 Total gravy haul of the Gehr- ! inanns, Including the congress mans $l0,00o sa1ary-s16,lSo . year. pf' ANTI-T0BACCO LECTURE {. ] Pet aversion of bachelor Jus- tice James O. McReynolds is to- bacco in all forms. His antipathy cost a neWsreel cameramail Q brisk lecture on the justices re- cent 78th birthday. ss,l A
 Three photographer were riak- ing shots of him coming jauntily out of his fashionable 18th street apartment house when the news reel man, chewing g cigar stub apologetically spoke up: "Mrs Jts- tice, would you mind doing that over. Tim; sorry to have, U tr0u-. ble you, sir, but I've just disc0v- cred that my camera was out cf focus" .lEI '' {. ,e N <, <
 McReynolds compiled, $, then scowled and < snapped, Young man, let this be . lesson to you. If you hadn't been chewing on that filthy weed and had been paying attention to yolr business you would have. got your picture the first time" 'se POLITICAL BITS ..;.,,
 Vandenberg managers are Quiet-. ly following Hoover's strategy and have sent wosd to. state lieuten- ants to work for ,ininstructeds x delegations z sa.' Tn his recent chicago speech Republican Floor Leader Joe Martin mentioned the names of the Illinois COP acof- gressineil. Biggest applause waS accorded that of Noah M. Mason when Martin added after his name IA good patriotic member of the Dies committee {. X. There Is a better than even chance that
 COP National Chairman John Hamilton will not be a member 2 of the Kansas convention dele gatiop. Certain to head 1t is l Ali LandCn. 5sA 4jty S SILVER CRISIS
 Like daisy pluckirg she loves me, she loves me not-are weighty matters often decided. So it. was with the most important monetary measure which has come before this session of Congress -silver 1t Illustrates how careless is tine coordination between Roosevelt and his congressional leaders.
 The Senate Banking Commit
 mitsec was debating Senator
 T0wrisezd's resolution Co put an end t0 purchases of foreign siIyer. Members og both paf-
 ties regarded the silver pur-
 chases as waste of tnsney,
 with little benefit Co the D. IS.
 A. and large benefit Co DIexico. /
 And why he charitable t9
 Mexico?
 This sentiment caused. a sub committee to vote favorable ace ton on the measure at its 10 o'clock morning meeting. At 10:3o, the full committee met, and seta- timent definitely favored Town sends plan to end foreign silr yer purchases. tsS
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