National Affairs: Fiddled

All but one of the senators of the U. S. last week received the following invitation: "My dear Senator: Having recently received a famous fiddle, you are most cordially invited to attend my first public recital, to be given from the top of the Washington Monument, this city, on the evening of St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1928, at 8 o'clock. I desire to show the world that having out-Neroed Nero in persecuting and denouncing that hated sect of Roman Catholics, I can also equal if not surpass him as a fiddler. Very truly yours, J. Thomas Heflin."

The ninety-sixth senator had,...

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