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Show 7e 7eup $ up upfi fi fiR R E EEN EN ENV Washington W\Shmgton W Shmgton V ' \ ishington D C C40 40 HOUR nOUR FIGHTTI FIGHTTi FIGHT FIGHTTl Tl TI e a fur ous battle over the bill to tosuspend tosuspend tosuspend suspend the 40-hour 40 hour 4"hour 4hour ( ) " - - \ week weekk eel . in ID war warplants \ warplants ar arplants plants caused a personal rl rift t be between between between tween two house leaders that may maytake maytake maytake take a long tune time to healWilen healWhen heal healWhen When Wilen Rep John McCormack McCormackMassachusetts McCormackMassachusetts McConnackMassachusetts Massachusetts 1 I beral was elected electedDemocratIc electedDemocratic electedDemocratic DemocratIc floor leader one of h b s sstrongest sstrongest sstrongest strongest supporters was a col colleague colleague colleague league who had nothing m in common commonWith commonwith commonwith With McCormack except eJ\.cept eJ.cept eJ .cept cept \ . tnendsh fIlendsh friendsh panIJ panti p panti -anIJ anIJ -anti anti - anti New Deal anti labor Rcp Rep RcpGene RepGene RepGene Gene Co\ Co CO'C COC Coe Coof \ ' of Georgia GeorgiaIt It wasIth was \ nith \\Ith Ith with hushed astoDishment astonishment astoDishmenttherefore astonishmenttherefore astonishmenttherefore therefore that the house 1 I stened 1stened to toCOJ toCox toCox COJ\ COJ Cox COJs \ . s bitter attack against agamst McCor McCormack McCormask McCormack mack mask during durmg the stormy debate over overthe overthe overthe the ant ant40 - - -40 40 - hour bour proposal . His vOicestndent voicestrident voice Istrident stndent strident manger in anger Cox CO'C COC Coe ' denouncedMcCormack denouncedMcCormackk denounced ] McCormack McCormackk on the ground ound that his hisoppos hisoppos hisjoppos oppos tion lion to abol shing sling the 40 hour hourweek hourweek hourweek week was not good sportsmanship sportsmanshipand and I \ wonder onder it if it is good leader leadersblp leadership leadership leadershipI sblp ship sblpI shipI I have hoped the Georgian Georgianthundered Georgianthundered Georgianthundered thundered that at some time the thegentleman thegentleman thegentleman gentleman from Massachusetts Massachusettswould Massachusettswould Massachusettswould would come to a realization that he heIS heis heis IS supposed to speak for lor the maJor maJorIty majority majority Ity of this house rather than for forsomebody forsomebody forsomebody somebody elseFIIends elseFriends else elseFriends Friends FIIends rushed to McCormack s sdefense sdefense sdefense defense but he made no DO reply Next Nextday Nextday Nextday day however under McCormack McCormaCl.s McCormaCls McCormaCl.sleadersh . s sleadersh sJleadersh leadersh p the bill was defeated 226 228 226to 228to 226to to 62-a 62 a 62 - a tally which left no doubts doubtsabout doubtsabout doubtsabout about who spoke tor for the majorityNote majorityNote majority majorityNote Note Two undercover factors factorswere factorswere factorswere were responsible for lor this votehIch vote \\hIch hIch which whichprobably \ ivhichJprobably \ hIchprobably probably d d not reflect refiect the general generalsentunent generalsentiment generalsentiment sentunent sentiment of the country One was wasa wasa a tremendous pressure drive by the theA theA theA A . 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F of Land L and C lOin I 0 O In the diStriCt districtof of each congressman This Tbis was par partlcularly particularly particularly tlcularly ticularly effective w th Republicans Republicanswho Republicanswho Republicanswho who with their eyes on next tall faU fall s scongressional scongressional scongressional congressional elections are very po polItical pohtical pohtical lItical htical minded mmded Second \ was as the fall fail fallure failure tallure ure of the farm bloc to support the theblU thebill thebill blU bill because it feared labor repIlsals reprisals repIlsalsagamst reprisalsagainst reprisalsagainst agamst against the parity and other boodle boodlegrabs boodlegrabs boodlegrabs grabs which the farm bloc is after afterThe afterThe afterThe The bloc has bas been counted on to kill killthe killthe killthe the 40 hour week but the laborltes laborites laborltesserved laboritesserved labontesserved served blunt notice that it if the b U 11 Uwas 11was 11was was passed labor would ax the thefarmers thefarmers thefarmers farmers Result , , , the farm bloc ran ranfor ranfor rantor for cover and the bill went into lDtO the theashcan theashcan thejishcan ashcan . - - WHAT THE TUE DOCtOR DOC'T'OR ' ' ORDEREDThe ORDEREDThe ORDERED ORDEREDThe The other day Harry Hopkms Hopkins bad had bada hada hada a visitor in m the person of Aubrey AubreyWIU AubreyWill AubreyWill WIU Will ams head of the NatIOnal NatIOnalYouth NationalYouth NationalYouth Youth administration admmlstratIon who has been beenone beenone beenone one of his closest friends fnends for rr many manyyears manyyears any anyyears years years'Harry Harry 'Harry ' said Williams lookmg looking lookmgaround lookingaround lookingaround around the room in m the naval bos hos bospltal hospital bospital pltal pital ho v many bottles of medi medicme medicine medlcine cme cine have you got there ? About 18 repi repl ed the lend lease leaseadmm leaseadmin leaseadmin admm admin stratorAbout stratorAbout strator stratorAbout About 18 too many commented commentedthe commentedthe the Nat onal Youth admin admm stratorAnd stratorAnd strator stratorAnd And how bow many doctors have you ) 3ougof , ou ? ' Hopkms Hopkins told hImWeU himWell him himWell Well WeU Harrybat Harry \\bat bat what \ whats s the use of ofyour ofyour ofyour your tooling foolmg fooling around with all these thesedoctors thesedoctors thesedoctors doctors and all aU this med cine sa d dhis dhis dhis his tr fr end You know that the more moredoctors moredoctors moredoctors doctors you have the more th s swhole swhole swhole whole thing thmg gets on your nerves nervesNow nervesNow nervesNow Now there s only one doctor who whoreally whoreally whoreally really knew what ailed you and andthat andthat andthat that sAndy s Andy Rig Rners Rl\ers Rl ers \ ers out at Mayo s m in mRocbe inRochester inRochester Rocbe Rochester ter Why don t you have Dr DrRivers DrRivers DrRivers Rivers come East and get you fixed fixeduP fixedup fixedupi fixedupiHarry uP ? , Harry Hopkms Hopkins acted on his old oldfrIend oldfriend oldfriend frIend s advice sent for Dr Rivers Riversand Riversand Riversand and now is out of the hospitalHe hospitalHe hospital hospitalHe He says be he has forgotten about aboutmedicine aboutmedicine medlcme medicine and doctors and feels bet better better , ter than he has in lD months Fur FurDr Furthermore Furthermore ' thermore Dr R vers has told him himthat himthat himthat that without any quest on he can canrecover canrecover canrecover recover entirelyN entirelyNEW entirely entirelyNEW N NEW W G 0 O P CHAIRMAN- CHAIRMAN CHAIRMANIt " ' - ' Its It s very shush sbush shush . , , but in cer certam certam certarn tam inner lDDer Republ can circles there therehave therehave therehave have been secret pow wows on re replacmg replacing replacing placmg placing Rep Joe Martin Martm as nat onal onalchairman onalchairman onalchairman onalchairmanThe chairman chairmanThe The hard working Ittle 1 ttle Bay Stater Staterwanted Staterwanted Staterwanted wanted to qu t last year but party partychIefs partychiefs partychiefs chIefs decided that the wisest course coursewould coursewould coursewould would be to persuade Martin to stay stayfor stayfor stayfor for the sake of harmonyNow harmonyNow harmony harmonyNow Now some of the strongest a advo advoCates advocatcs vo vocates cates of his relent retent on are after hIs hIsscalp hisscalp hisscalp scalp The hostile fire is from two sources sourcesOne One is from Mid West leaders leaderssour leaderssour leaderssour sour on Martin ( (1) 1 ( ) tor for h s failure to togive togive togive give them recogn tion hon in lD nat o"1al o1al o"1alheadquarters o oialheadquarters " ial ialheadquarters headquarters (2) 2 ( ) tor for his secret secretfinancial secretfinancial secretfinancial financial woo ng of Pennsylvania o 0 I 1 Imlll 1mill 1mill mlll mill onaire onalre Joseph Pew and Pennsylvan Pennsylvan Penn Pennsylvan sylvan a steel mill onaire onalre rrnest Ernest rrnestWeir ErnestWeir : ErnestWeir Weir _ In the farm belt the tvio t\\O t O two \ big money moneycontributors moneycontributors moneycontributors contributors are pol pal polt t cal dynamite dynamiteand dynamiteand dynamiteand and the Mid West G 0 O P ch efs can t tunderstand tunderstand tunderstand understand why Mart n is pallng pall ng ngaround ngaround ngaround around aroundllh \ with \\llh llh them So they feel the thet thet t me has come for one of their group groupto groupto groupto to be named c a ether ther oat nat onal anal chair chairman chairman chairman man or exccut eJ\.ecut eJ.ecut eJ .ecut ecut execut \ . ve ye d rectorFRENCH rectorFRENCII rector rectorFRENCH FRENCH FRENCII PROBLEM PROBLEMWhen PROBLEMWhen PROBLEMWhen When you get them out of official officialearshot officialearshot officialearshot I earshot ex led members of 01 the old oldFrench oldFrench oldFrench ' French cab net now In Wash ngton ngtonare ngtonare ngtonare are very susp oious CIOUS of v " what hat the theVIchy theVichy theVichy VIchy government I ib is doing domg in Mar Mart Martnlque t nique nlque and GuadeloupeGuadeloupe GuadeloupeGuadeloupe Guadeloupe GuadeloupeGuadeloupe Guadeloupe is a less publ pub I clzed sized clzedFrench sizedFrench cizcdFrench French Island near Marl Mart n que and andcertain andcertain andcertain certain coded messages have been beenIntercepted beenintercepted beenintercepted Intercepted indicat indlcat ng pro German GermanactIvit Germanactivit Germanactivit actIvit es on both Islands Susp Suspc c on is strong that Guadeloupe is be beIng being beIng Ing used as a submarine refuell ng base ngbase for Nazi submarines operatmg operating operatingn operatingIn operatmgtn tn ( n the Car bbean _ |