Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's Congressional elections three were routine ? the 7th New York (Brooklyn) and 20th Ohio (Cleveland) to Democrats, the 2nd Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) to a Republican. The re sults in the other two made important news...
...eyes of U. S. politicians were directed toward mid-Missouri last week. There, in the State's 7th Congressional district, was taking place an election to fill the vacancy left by the death of Representative Samuel C. Major. Candidates were: Robert D. Johnson, 47, Dry "fighting Democrat" who had served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Saline County; John W. Palmer, Dry Republican who took the seat away from Representative Major in the 1928 Hoover landslide, lost it back to him two years later. An independent Democrat named L. L. Collins was appealing to the Wet vote...
...Arkansas to stump for Candidate Johnson, flay the Farm Board, the Tariff. Cigar-gnawing onetime Senator James Reed of Missouri helped too. Outcome of the race in this usually Democratic district was not unexpected, but the vote divided surprisingly. Normally Democratic by 3,500 to 1,500 votes, the 7th gave Candidate Johnson, even though the ticket was split, the whopping majority of 8,990. The Johnson victory brought the total number of Democratic seats in the House of Representatives to 214, tied the Republicans, put the theoretical balance of power once more in the hands of smooth-haired young...
There are still seven House seats, emptied by Death, to be filled by Nov. 3. Unless the inconceivable happens, Democrats will succeed Democrats in the 7th New York, 1st Georgia and the 20th Ohio districts. Republicans are likely to succeed Republicans in the 8th Michigan, 2nd Pennsylvania, ist Wisconsin. In the ist Ohio district lies the possibility of deadlock or Democratic victory. Should the Democracy gain the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth's seat it would have a House majority-218-10-217-provided Death does not again intervene...
...First to call itself a National Guard was New York's 7th Regiment, now socially distinguished and officially called the 107th infantry...