Fight Over Flynn

Mr. President, it is my observation in looking about the chamber today that the stench of the Flynn appointment has become so nauseating to the majority members of the Senate that when it was known quite generally that the Senator from New Hampshire would make further remarks regarding Mr. Flynn a great majority of them beat it to the cloakrooms.

Thus New Hampshire's smooth, sarcastic Republican Senator Styles Bridges resumed his attack one day last week on Franklin Roosevelt's appointment of Democratic National Chairman Edward J. Flynn as Minister to Australia and special envoy in the South Pacific (TIME, Jan....

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