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A—I8 GRIDIRON CLUBMEN HIT GOURT PLAN Skit, Witnessed by Roose- veit, Shows lJurists in Rubber-Stamp Role. (Continued From First Page.) the extremes of satire, song and— dance! For the first time in its his- tory the Gridiron Club presented a ballet! It was “The Life and Works of Joseph E. Davies,” for which “The Imperial Russian Ballet” had been “engaged at enormous expense.” The President’s reorganization plan discovered “a Roosevelt with a pas- sion for anonymity,” as well as two Congressmen horrified because they had been offered patronage jobs. The club's traditions were borne out when, in unreported speeches, President Roosevelt spoke his mind, and another view was presented—this time by a leading industrialist, Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the board of the United States Steel Corp. The dinner started with the in- auguration of President G. Gould Lincoln of The Washington Star. Suddenly on the stage appeared news- boys and pedestrians. One excited newsboy was calling: “The Washington Star! All about the inauguration of: President Lincoln!” “The good old Evening Star cer- tainly catches up with the news,” remarked a pedestrian, but it de- velops that The Star has a scoop— President Lincoln is inaugurated then and there before the diners. Hull Dreams of “Horrors.” Not long afterward, the lights again darkened and after Secretary of State Hull was introduced his pro- totype was seen on the stage, fitfully dreaming about the ghosts in the | State Department's chamber of hor- | rors. These were the League of | Nations, the Kellogg pact, George | N. Peek, Raymond Morley and Plorello H. La Guardia. But it was all a nightmare. They were not horrors at all, but the new members of the Gridiron Club: George E. Durno of the International News Service, Edwin D. Canham of the Christian Science Monitor, John Lambert of the Washington Times, Turner Catledge of the New York Times and J. Maxson Cunningham, a limited member. The “Angel Davies” appeared on the stage in person—a prima ballerina in traditional ballet costume, with the addition of small angel's wings in the manner of Pavlova's swan, and wearing a diamond tiara. To Saint- Saens’ music of “The Swan” and | later the “Waltz of the Flowers” from the “Nutcracker Suite,” this club member-dancer was wooed by another —W. Forbes Morgan, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Da- vies, coy, offered only two bits from | his bag of goldi—but after an ardent wooing showered Morgan with gold and was appointed Ambassador to Russia To “The Dance of the Reed Flutes” from the “Nutcracker Suite,” a chorus of State Department attaches in frock coats, top hats and the traditional white spats instructed the Angel Da- vies in his duties—with teacups. Next came the arrival of the Davies yacht, the Sea Cloud, at Moscow. Entered six sailors, bearing bottles of the famous Davies cream, and ex- | ecuted a regular hornpipe step. Then the skies darkened—it was within the walls of the Kremlin—and | & firing squad of Russian men and women danced their preparations for the execution of the Angel Davies, whom they believed too rich. But the ballet ended with a triumphant revel in the Red Square in Moscow, for the Angel Davies confessed that he is rich and paid off the whole Russian debt in a final grand ges- ture, while the entire cast cavorted in triumph. Don Quixote and Sanche. In far different mood was the club | soon thereafter, when they bore their guests back several centuries to an inn in old Castille. There were Don Quix- ote, not otherwise identified than as a dreamer and knight errant, and his | benchman, Sancho Panza Garner. Don Quixote requested “Good Gar- ner” to sit beside him, “for the same | may be said of politics which is said | of love—that it makes all things | equal!” But the faithful Garner as- serted that “bean soup at the Senate Restaurant suits me better.” Don Quixote fingered a handful of acorns and mused of “that far-off, golden age when those who lived were ignorant of those two words, “mine and thine!” He envied “the indus- trious and the improvident bees formed into commonwealths, offering to all, without interest or labor, the fertile products of their most delicious toil.” Garner was not attracted by this picture of a New Deal—or Utopian state, and said: “That’s nice language, boss, but what I need is liniment.” “Good Jack,” said Don Quixote, “thou were ever a rustic. Dost under- | stand that our mission is to relieve those in distress?” “Mebbe so,” replies Garner, “I wouldn’t know. I do know that since we got into this knight errant business all I've got from your enchanted friends is a kick in the pants. And have had to keep my mouth shut, be- sides.” Garner Allowed to Speak. Don Quixote offered to “remove the embargo from thy tongue,” and Garner | said: “Let me talk now, while I'm still able” Giving his candid opinion, Garner said: “I'm gettin’ cold on this knight er- rant business. Where's the majesty and pomp in governing 96 critters no bigger'n hazel nuts?” “How sayest thou, good Garner?” said Don Quixote. “Hear'st thou not the neighing of steeds, the sound of trumpets and rattling of drums?” Garner: “Naw, nuthin’ but the bleating of sheep—up on the hill.” Don Quixote: Dost not perceive that all affairs in which Knights Errant are concerned appear follies and extravagances, and seem all done by the rule of contraries? Garner: Says which? Don Quixote: It's enough that God understands me. Seest thou not yon fortress of privilege, yon castle of finance? There lies some poor for- gotten wight under dire oppression to | whose relief I am brought hither. Garner: Them's windmills, Boss. They grind the corn. They're useful. Don Quixote: Peace, Garner, for though they seem to be windmills, they are not so. Look! What hobgoblins come out to oppose us! See those horrid visages with which they think to scare us. Now rascals, have at you! Garner: Keep your shirt on, Boss, keep your shirt on! Don Quixote: Death to all rascals! Garner: Oh, Lord! We're off again! Connally-Rayburn Duet. In not dissimilar vein was the duet, wung by members representing Sena- tor Tom Connally and Representative Sam Rayburn of Texas. Set in a weary Capital, these statesmen mourned their lot to the tune of “I'd Like to Be in Texas.” They sang: We are going to be in session Through the Summer and the Fall; By the look of things at present ‘We may not adjourn at all! Since the President informed us What is in the White House bill I'd rather be in Texas ‘Than be here upon the Hill. 7% was a long way from Texas, how- ever, to Egypt and the court of Phar- oah. A strange court, indeed, that the guests saw: Pharaoh sitting on a soap box before a packing box for a desk, smoothing out the crushed stub of a half-burned cigarette and fitting it into a long holder. A slave, answer- ing to the name of Mac announced that it was 11 o'clock—almost time for Pharaoh’s 10:30 press conference— and it developed that the entire court was hungry, and needed a business man “That's me, little Joseph in person,” exclaimed a self-satisfied figure who enters bearing a book and a farm program! “Are you a business man?” asked Pharaoh. Joseph admitted he was. So Pharaoh confessed: “I had s dream last night. There were seven ;ufie, fat budgets, all printed in black e “In black ink—that was & dream,” said Mac. “And along came seven scrawny budgets. all printed in red ink, and they ate up the black budgets, getting redder all the time,” continued Pha- raoh. The meaning of the dream was elu- cidated in a book, not “Gone With the Wind,” but the Book of Genesis. Therein Joseph found an agricultural program: “For seven years I go around buy- ing up cheap all the stuff that the farmers can't use. Then along comes vour famine and you sell it back to them. It's all right there in the book.” Pharaoh: “You mean the farmers pay money to the government. quaint.” Joseph: “Sure. Why, after a cou- ple of years they don't have a dime left.” Pharaoh: “But what do we do then? Put 'em back on relief?” Joseph: “Boss, would that be busi- ness,.” Pharaoh finally agreed. “Swelll The crisis—quiet as it was—is over. Mac, call in the newspaper boys. I'll tell them about the special message I'm sending to Congress next week on the ever-normal granary.” United States Senators, Inc. Turning from the executive side of the Government, the club explored “United States Senators, Inc.,” meet- ing in the office of Senator Royal S. Copeland. Senators Reynolds, Nye Herring, Bridges, Burke and Holt appeared to offer their testimonials. Senator Her- ring kept repeating, like a Greek chorus: “How much do we get?” Senator Reynolds wore whiskers, seek- ing to elude the North Carolina cigar- ette people following his indorsement of Virginia cigarettes; Senator Holt agrees to indorse anything, even his West Virginia colleague, Senator Neely; Senator Burke has an offer from President Roosevelt to buy back the indorsement given the Nebraskan in 1934; Senator Nye had an offer from the Associated Battleship Build- ers of the World, and said: “Why, this is an insult—that is, I think it is. How much do they offer?” Two bartenders, Farley and Ickes, offered a brief diversion at a bar where nothing but Government rum from the Virgin Islands was sold. A cus- tomer pronounced the verdict on Vir- gin Island rum: “It's made accord- ing to the old Federal recipe. If it had been any better, the Govern- ment couldn't have made it, and if it had been any worse, I couldn’t have drunk it.” But Bartender Ickes said: “That’s the trouble with some of you people. You never appreciate what the Gov- ernment does for you * * * Come the revolution, he'll drink Government rum and like it!" of neighboring economic royalists Great was their surprise when they learned what was in store for them. One said: “How quaintly delight- ful—just like going slumming.” Another said: “I heard him once. Then my doctor put me on .. diet.” And the hostess anxiously queries: servants listen? They say he stirs up the most awful ideas among the lower classes.” The company sang of their delight in other radio programs, but: “What else can we do? There’s nothing on the air tonight But fireside chat and you!” pect: “We hear a voice which softly rings, The voice on the radio. It promises so many things— The voice on the radio. In dreams we drift through a twi- light haze, | Under the spell of a magic phrase And visions fair of happy days— The voice on the radio.” But when the broadcast came, it was a meaningless hub-bub of quacks and squeaks and warbles. “Surely that's not 'im, sir?” pro- tested a butler. “Sounds just like him to me,” re- plied the host. One impressionable lady cried that: “I am converted. I'm going to dis- charge two of my maids and send their wages to Mr. Farley. From now on I am a New Dealer.” On being told that “You couldn’t understand a word he said,” the lady replied: “Of course not. But what difference does it make. Oh, that lovely, lovely voice!” Then, in the well-known air from “Samson and Delilah,” the club sang: My heart at thy sweet voice Makes of me a New Dealer, For Utopia I am burning. And when, in lullaby, Thy voice sings in the ether, For its echoes I am yearning. Oh why should people care What platforms may declare? Repeal the platform pledges, O forget all that stuff, Thy sweet voice is enough! Ah! Come list to that sweet voice! Ah! New Dealers ali rejoice! New Dealers all rejoice, New Dealers all rejoice, | Ah! We need nothing else save that | sweet voice! Strike Note Enters. But a new note entered—a note of prophecy. On the stage was discovered the East Room of the White House on January 20, 1941, as the C. R. 0.— Committee for Republican Organiza- tion—carries on its sit-down strike. John Hamilton, Herbert Hoover, Alfred M. Landon, Arthur Vandenberg and Cabot Lodge were seen in tattered attire, grimly sitting down. Their dinner pails arrived and they pro- tested to the butler that: “Last night IJ.hm were too many bones in the How | Beside a glowing fireplace, a group | gathered, in another skit, to hear a | fireside chat by President Roosevelt. | “Do you think we ought to let the | Then they are told what to ex- | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 11, 1937—PART ONE. Inaugurated By G. GOULD LINCOLN Of The Star was inaugurated as president of the Gridiron Club last night and presided at the organization’s dinner, terrapin. Please understand that be- ginning tomorrow that can’t happen here!” The group sang, without music, a soulful ballad to the familiar tune: “8it down, sit down for G. O. P. Ye soldiers, brave and strong. We've been here since November, But now it won’t be long. From among the common people Our leader has been sent, ‘We never will desert him— Till we're the Government.” Bill Borah, it was discovered, went down the fire escape during the night, and they asked: “Wonder what Bill would do without a fire escape!” John W. Davis was introduced, and consulted on the constitutionality of sit-down strikes. He said: *“Ahem, might I ask, who is m) client?” On being told it was a secret, he said: “Is this—ah—person what you would call socially desirable?” Informed that “he’s politically desir- able,” Davis said: “I see, I see. It is my well-considered opinion that no question of constitutionality can be raised against the—shall we say un- usual—nature of your undertaking.” The Democrats, meantime, were try- ing to bring in strike-breakers, and finally Gen. Hugh Johnson and Sol- icitor General Stanley Reed entered. Gen. Johnson spoke in the name of “That great soul who has never been right, but for whom I would sacrifice my last lung—Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Solictor General Reed, meantime, said that: “These sit-down strikes are the negation of civilized government. | They strike at the very vitals of the | | (er, er) Constitution we all revere— | | ahem—in a manner of speaking.” Try to Gas Strikes. But this did not deter the Republi- cans, and Gen. Johnson, aided by reinforcements from the Army, tried | to gas the sit-downers with “the con- centrated quintessence” of the Pres- ident’s speeches. It did not work—the sit-downers were victorious in the White House, in Congress, in the departments. Her- bert Hoover wept: “Oh, to think I should live to see this day.” And then John L. Lewis was proclaimed the Republican President. He scowled | and said: “Why shouldn'’t I be your President? | Ain’t I the man that showed you | how?” A brief but revealing display of | Miss Nude-Rality was given guests | between courses. William Borah Min- | sky and Hiram Johnson Minsky ap- peared with a strip-tease artist, but | When they told her to “commence ... take off” she replied: “Listen, you | isolationists ... I haven't got a thing on under this dress. When I take it off, I'm all through. I can't strip and I can't tease. My act's ruined. In- stead of Miss America, you ought to bill me as Miss Nude-Rality.” “The truth is,” continued Miss America, “a bunch of Senators came to my dressing room. They said, ‘Miss America, you're in a cash and carry business, aren't you? Well, we're just getting you ready to meet those Euro- peans who are coming over here to strip you, and we want to beat them to it." “I yelled: Mercy, those Europeans wouldn't take my clothes? And one very perlite Senator with lovely whiskers said: ‘Ah, my dear, they did the last time. And they never brought them back.’ " Milquetoast Justices Arrive. Finally came the climatic act of the evening, and the 15 Caspar Mil- quetoast members of the new Supreme Court tramped on the stage to the strains of the “March of the Toys,” played by the United States Marine Band Orchestra, under the direction of Capt. Taylor Branson, which is a traditional fixture of the Gridiron dinners. Announced by the clerk as “this more or less honorable and more or less Supreme Court,” the justices set- tled themselves behind a bench and one exclaimed: “It's wonderful to be fresh from the stream of modern life.” Another cried: “This court is far too crowded,” only to be rebuked by the remark, “What do you expect in & packed court—a private room and bath?” Bound by statute to do choral obeisance to the White House, the court sang: “Oh, nobody knows the opinions I sign, Nobody knows but Franklin, Nobody knows but that pen of mine, Glory, Mr. Roosevelt!” When the Chief Justice asked for candidates for admission to practice, he said: “There being no lawyers on the court, I thought it might look well to have a few in the court room.” But the persons who were admit- ted turned out merely to be anxious “to walk in the White House, just like John!"—John was the man the President told about a third term, and the chorus sang. Then all contributors of more than $1,000 to the last Democratic cam- paign were permitted to practice be- fore the court, while lesser contribu- tors were sent to the Circuit Court of Appeal. Sing of $20,000 Pensions. On learning that members of the court were now permitted to retire at $20,000 per annum for life, they sang: “An act of Congress now ordains, Pennies from Heaven; Don't you know that bill contains Pennies from Heaven? You'll find that folks are asking all over town The reason why some judges turn that pension down. Trade your Blackstone and your Coke For sunshine and flowers. Put aside your sable cloak, Get to the showers, For when the White Houze thunders Who will dare disagree With those pennies from Heaven for you and me.” The ocase of the United States } against Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone and Guam was then argued, while the Attorney General sang: “The unconstitutional guardian I, Of laws I challenge on the sly, But all are enacted as laws should be, Though none of 'em understood by me.” Finally, a messenger from the White House entered, demanding that the court: “Get a move on, and hold these new laws constitutional. The President wants them. It took him almcst two hours this morning to get them through Congress. There's & crisis.” Sald the Chief Justice: “Gentlemen of the court, let us go to work. Get out your rubber stamps! And above all, keep your minds off John Mar- shall” Then came the final song, while the justices swung their rubber stamps, saluted, and tossed the com- pleted decisions in the direction of President Roosevelt: “Ome, two, better get through, Put on your coat and hat. We do a job like that, When we're working for you. Three, four, car’s at the Hurry, for heaven's sake. We know what stand to take When we're working for you. Five, six, the law does tricks When it hearkens to your charms. Seven, eight, without debate, As we toss them to your arms, Nine, ten, stamp ’em again. Gee, but we get a thrill, In our judicial mill, When we're working for you.” The guest list for the banquet follows: The President of the United States. The Vice President of the United States. The Ambassador of Germany. The Ambassador of Japan. The Ambassador of Italy. The Ambassador to Argentina. The Ambassador to Russia. The Peruvian Ambassador to Chile. The Speaker of the House of Rep- resentatives. The Chief Justice of the United States. The Minister of Czechoslovakia. Associate Justice Harlan F. Stone. The Secretary of State. The Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of War. The Attorney General. The Postmaster General. The Secretary of Agriculture. The Secretary of Commerce. door, A William S. Abbott, New York City; Howard Acton, Alva B. Adams, Sen- ator from Colorado; Eugene G. Adams, Phelps H. Adams, New York Sun; Robert C. Albright, Washington Post; Roland Amateis, Paul Y. Anderson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; August H. An- dresen, Representative from Minne- sota; Edward R. Anker, New York City; M. C. Armstrong, Hampton, Va.; Robert B. Armstrong, A. L. Ashby, New York City; Henry F. Ashurst, Senator from Arizona; James W. At~ kins, the Gazette, Gastonia, N. C. B Nathan L. Bachman, Senator from Tennessee; Henry Bahr, Hugh Baillie, United Press Associations; Edward C. Baltz, Robert Barry, New York City; Le Verne Beales, Morgan M. Beatty, Associated Press; Peter Becker, jr.; Alfred F. Beiter, Representative from New York; Daniel W. Bell, acting director of budget; Ulric Bell, Louis- ville Courier-Journal; Ira E. Bennett, Kenneth Berkeley, Donald M. Ber- nard, Washington Post; C. K. Berry- man, Washington Evening Star; Count Leone Fumasoni Biondi, Harry M. Bitner, Hearst newspapers; Wiley Blair, jr, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Dr. Walter A. Bloedorn, Warren S. Booth, Booth newspapers; A. Smith Bowman, Sunset Hills, Va.; J. Regi- nald Boyd, Woodside Park, Md.; L. L. Bracken, Muncie, Ind.; Thomas W. Brahany, Raymond P. Brandt, S8t. Louis Post-Dispatch.; Capt. Taylor Branson, leader United States Marine Band; Harold Brayman, Philadelphia | Evening Ledger; Philip Mainwaring Brodmead, first secretary of British Embassy; Kenneth F. Brooks, Chevy Chase, Md.; Heywood Broun, New York City; Ashmun Brown, Provi- dence Journal; Dudley B. W. Brown, | George Rothwell Brown, King Features | Syndicate; Harry J. Brown, Salt Lake | Tribune; J. H. Brown, Stamford, Conn.; Prentiss M. Brown, Senator from | Michigan; H. E. C. Bryant, Charlotte News; C. Douglas Buck, Wilmington, Del.; Gene Buck, Great Neck, Long Island, N. Y.; E. A. Buel, Walker 8. Buel, Cleveland Plain Dealer; John F ‘W. Burrus, Harry C. Butcher, Edward H. Butler, Buffalo Evening News; Harry Flood Byrd, Senator from Vir- ginia; James F. Byrnes, Senator from South Carolina. C Robert F. Cahill, Erwin D. Canham, Christian Science Monitor; Vincent W. Canham, Lewiston (Me.) S8un- Journal; Arno B. Cammerer, director National Park Service; Raymond G. Carroll, Saturday Evening Post; Leo Casey, Turner Catledge, New York Times; Edwin V. Champion, Rep- resentative from Illinois; A. B. Chand- ler, Governor of Kentucky; J. E. Chappell, president, Southern News- paper Publishers’ Association; Dennis Chavez, Senator from New Mexico; Arthur D. Chilgren, Chicago, IlL; G. Bowie Chipman, Robert B. Choate, Boston Herald; Lieut. Col. T. J. J. Christian, U. S. A.; Melbourne Chris- terson, Associated Press; Dr. Arthur C. Christie, Howard Chandler Christie, New York City; Raymond Clapper, Scripps-Howard newspapers; Bennett Champ Clark, Senator from Missouri; Edward B. Clark, Frank S. Clark, Brookline, Mass.; George Clark, News- paper Enterprise Association; Samuel Clyde, Chester, Pa.; John J. Cochran, Representative from Missouri; Philip O. Coffin, William J. Collins, super- intendent Senate press gallery; Clem- ent E. Conger, Chicago Tribune; Tom Connally, Senator from Texas; Joseph V. Connolly, King Features Syndicate; C. Fred Cook, Washington Evening Star; Charles G. Cooper, Kent Cooper, Associated Press; Thomas G. Cor- coran, Edward Costigan, Justice Joseph W. Cox, District Court of the United States; M. H. Creager, presi- dent American Society Newspaper Editors; H. M. Crist, Vineyard Haven, Mass.; George D. Crofts, Buffalo, N. Y.; Harry F. Cunningham, J. Harry Cunningham, Chevy Chase, Ma.; J. Maxson Cunningham, Chevy Chase, Md.; Grant Curry, Pittsburgh, Pa. D John W. Davidge, Jo Davidson, Paris, France; Chester C. Davis, Federal Reserve Board; C. C. Davisson, Gordon Dean, Louis M. Denit, Law- rence Dennis, New York City; Ralph B. Dennis, Evanston, IlL; Frederick L. Devereux, New York City; William T. Dewart, jr., New York Sun; Everett M. Dirksen, Representative from Illinois; Wesley E. Disney, Repre- sentative from Oklahoma; Arthur J. Dodge, William J. Donaldson, ir., superintendent House press gallery; Francis P. Douglas, St. Louis Globe- Democrat; Lewis W. Douglas, New York City; James F. Doyle, Buffalo Courier-Express; Carl Dreyfus, Boston American; Sherman R. Dufty, Chicago American; George Durham, OCleve- land, Ohio; George E. Durham, Brew- \ ster, Ohio; George E. Durno, national News Service. Inter- E Stephen T. Early, assistant secretary to the President; Fred East, Marriner 8. Eccles, chairman Federal Reserve Board; Howard Ehrlich, McGraw- Hill Publishing Co.; Max Eitel, Chi- cago, "Il.; Leon T. Ellel, Pasadena, Calif.; Nathanael H. Engle, J. Fred Essary, Baltimore 8un; Edward A. Evans, Memphis Press-Scimitar; John R. Ewell. F Warren C. Fairbanks, the Indian- apolis News; Shelby 8. Faulkner, Rob- ert Fechner, director C. C. C.; Abner H. Ferguson, Fred S. Ferguson, News- paper Enterprise Association: Carter Field, Bell Syndicate; W. D. Flanders, deputy administrator F. H. A.; J. 8. Flannery, Charles G. Fleetwood, Phil- adelphia, Pa.; Robert V. Fleming, W. J. Flowers, Butler, Pa.; Mark Foote, Grand Rapids Press; Frank Ford, Evansville Press; James B. Forrestal, New York City; William N. Freeman, J. E. de Sousa Freitas, second secre- tary, Brazilian Embassy; James H. Furay, United Press Association. G Edwin W. Gableman, Cincinnati En- quirer; Guy P. Gannett, Portland (Maine) Evening Press® W. Gwynn Gardiner, Gerrish Gassaway, Wilming- ton, Del.; W. G. Gaston, Gastonia, N. C.; Charles D. German, Bethesda, Md.; Guy M. Gillette, Senator from Iowa; James H. Gilman, Baltimore, Md.; Robert M. Ginter, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mark L. Goodwin, Dallas News; Ster- ling E. Graham, Cleveland Plain Dealer; Willlam Green, president American Federation of Labor; Charles O. Gridley, the Denver Post; E. Col- ville Griffith, Charlotte, N. C.; Preston L. Grover, Associated Press; Charles S. Groves, the Boston Globe; John Groves, John W. Guider. H Edwin A. Halsey, secretary of the United States Senate; E. Tinsley Hal- ter, West Palm Beach, Fla.; Harvey Hancock, Salt Lake City; Dan R. Hanna, jr, Cleveland News; George U. Harris, New York City; Pat Harri- son, Senator from Mississippi; Roland R. Harrison, Christian Science Moni- tor; Rear Admiral Thomas C. Hart, U. 8. N.; John J. Hasley, William D, Hassett, White House; W. W. Haw- kins, Scripps-Howard newspapers; Roger Hawthorne, Associated Press; Asa K. Hayden, Cassopolis, Mich.; Jay G. Hayden, Detroit News; Robert T. Hayden, Cassopolis, Mich.; Richard D. Hebb, Chicago, Ill.; Guy T. Helvering, commission of internal revenue; James Hennessey, Boston, Mass.; Arthur S. Henning, Chicago Tribune; John O. Herrick, Clyde L. Herring, Senator from Iowa; William E. Hess, Cin- cinnati, Ohio; Charles D. Hilles, New York City; Edward L. Hillyer, John N. Hinkley, Warrenton, Va.; William G. Hippier, Buffalo Evening News; H. E. Hoagland, Gilbert T. Hodges, New York Sun; Paul Hodges, Cleveland News; George F. Hoffman, Philadel- H. Jarman, Edwin C. Johnson, Senator from Colorado; Henry P. Johnston, the Birmingham News; Charles A. Jones, George L. Jones, Asheville, N, C.; Jesse H. Jones, chairman Reconstruction Finance Corp.; Marvin Jones, Repre- sentative from Texas; Raymond E. Jones, New York City; S8am M. Jones, Walter Jones, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Theo- dore G. Joslin, Wilmington News-Jour- nal; R. Edwin Joyce. K Hugh Kane, Cleveland News; Wal- ter Karig, Newark Evening News; R. M. Kauffmann, Washington Evening Star; 8. H. Kauffmann, Washington Evening Star; Victor Kauffmann, Washington Evening Star; Edmund I. Kaufmann, E. P. Kavanaugh, Balti- more Sun; M. C. Keister, Clement E. Kennedy, Swampscott, Mass.; Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman United States Maritime Commission; Rev. Joseph T. Kennedy, Forest Glen, Md.; James Kerney, jr., Trenton Times; Dr. H. H. Kerr, Charles P. Keyser, St. Louis Globe-Democrat; Bayard L. Kin- gour, Cincinnati, Ohio; Ben King, John T. Kirby, New York City; Louis E. Kirsten, Boston, Mass.; Fletcher Knebel, Cleveland Plain Decler, Karl Kae Knecht, the Evansville Courier; William E. Knight, Green River, Vt.; Frank Knox, Chicago Daily News; Frank W. Kridel, New York City; Arthur Krock, New York Times; Oliver Owen Kuhn, Washington Evening Star. L Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor of New York City; John T. Lambert, Washington Times; James M. Landis, chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; Robert R. Lane, Newark Evening News; William H. Lawder, Chevy Chase, Md.; Paul R. Leach, Chicago Daily News; Whitney Leary, Ralph W. Lee, jr., Chevy Chase, Md.; George A. Lewis, Chevy Chase, Md.; James Hamilton Lewis, Senator from Dllinofs; John L. Lewis, chairman Committee on Industrial Organization; Charles Porterfield Light, G. Gould Lincoln, Washington Evening Star; Nathan 8. Lincoln, Robert O. Litch- flield, Herbert Little, Scripps-Howard hewspapers; Henry Cabot Lodge, jr., Senator from Massachusetts; Dr. John A. Logan, Lieut. Col. Emanuel Lom- bard, military attache, French Em- bassy; Edward G. Lowry, Ernest Lun- deen, Senator from Minnesota. M Edward Markham, Raymond C. Mayer, New York City; John W. May- nard, Newark Evening News; Harry A. McBride, assistant to the Secretary of State; Charles F. McCahill, Cleveland News; Willlam P. McCracken; Stewart McDonald, Federal housing Adminis- trator; James S. McDonnell, jr., Bal- timore, Md.; Paul J. McGahan, Phila- delphia Inquirer; Edward F. 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