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...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...
...good men to come to the aid of the party. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke has swung through the West bearing the message of Hooverism. Recently the Federal Farm Board sent a letter into Missouri, where a special election was to be held in the 7th Congressional district, outlining the blessings which have accrued to agrarians from the Republican Agricultural Marketing Act. Gruff, chunky Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, President Hoover's chief political aide in the Cabinet, went a step further last week. Addressing a convention of the National Association of Postmasters at Omaha...
Died, Matthew V. O'Malley, 54, Brooklyn broker elected last February to be U. S. Representative from the 7th New York Congressional District, succeeding the late John Francis Quayle (TIME, Dec. 8); of heart disease; in Brooklyn...
...army officer when Rudyard Kipling was writing about the Lord God of Hosts "beneath whose awful hand we hold dominion over palm and pine." Fervently as any of his generation has Winston Churchill believed in Great Britain's divine right to rule-by force. His grandfather was the 7th Duke of Marlborough, descendant of that first Duke of Marlborough of whose going to war French children still carol. He believes that it is not only dangerous but disgraceful to make any promises whatever to Indian Nationalist opinion. Those fire-eating Britons who believe with him turn to Tory Churchill...