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...adoption was a platform calling for public ownership of key industries; peace; slum clearance; a 30-hour week; a "workers and farmers amendment" to the Constitution to give Congress complete control of agriculture and industry. When the hour came for choosing candidates, George A. Nelson, Wisconsin farmer, onetime Alaskan sourdough, was nominated for Vice President. Norman Thomas, unopposed, was given the Socialist nomination for President for the third time. At this wholly expected choice, the delegates, aping Capitalist politicians, gave way to 15 minutes of shouting, cheering, singing as the white-haired nominee was carried to the platform, beaming...
...Greist's Alaskan medical-missionary district covers about 120,000 square miles. Over the tundra of that vast region he was accustomed to make two trips a year by dog-team, carrying the Gospel and purgatives to the Eskimos, performing marriages, pulling teeth...
...only adventure in politics up to that time had been his appearance as an Alaskan delegate at the 1920 Democratic convention which nominated James M. Cox and Franklin Roosevelt. In 1928 he appeared in John J. Raskob's waiting room carrying a brief case full of figures, but that Democratic National Chairman was much too preoccupied to see the hefty young amateur. Hurja's service in that campaign was limited to a few menial political jobs performed for the late Terence F. McKeever, Tammany district leader. By 1932 Hurja knew his way around Wall Street better. Among...
...most hard-boiled political commentator. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, AMERICAN -Mrs. Fremont Older-Appleton-Century ($4). Authorized biography of the publisher, by the widow of San Francisco's famed liberal editor. FOG AND MEN ON BERING SEA-Max Miller-Button ($3). Max Miller covers the Alaskan waterfront on a Government boat. Illustrated with photographs...
...came to Pomona in 1928 to see his daughter act in a college show with Joel. Wood watched McCrae more than he did his daughter. Though a student of public elocution, Joel didn't get a chance to talk much in the talkies until he was cast in an Alaskan hunting story with the late Louis Wolheim. Talking and acting an outdoors man were two things Joel could do well...