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...running on an opposing ticket, has remained peculiarly silent on the Taft-Ferguson fight. Organized labor's choice was Murray Lincoln, farm bureau leader, but labor failed to exercise enough push at the state convention to nominate its man. Instead to convention came up with Ferguson, the State Auditor, a gent who is likable, entirely up-right, and has a handsome wife and eight children. He is also entirely new to politics above the State Auditor Level...
...intangible to sell, however--popularity. Ferguson as State Auditor has been an extraordinarily successful politician. In 1948 when Harry Truman carried Ohio by 7,701 voted, Ferguson won reelection by 291,887 votes, the most impressive majority the state has ever given a Democrat...
Outside Ohio, he was a political nobody-a bookkeeper who, in 1936, had slipped in as state auditor on the tail gate of the Roosevelt bandwagon. He had almost no backing from the regular Democratic organization. He did have a following of state employees, auditors and examiners, and he rarely if ever forgot a name or a face. He had organized and supported a Columbus softball team named "Ferguson's Auditors," and annually he mailed out 150,000 Christmas cards bearing photographs of his handsome wife and their growing family of eight children...
...likable sort and he had a kind of brash courage. He had challenged Taft when better-known and more prudent men had declined to take the chance. And in some respects, he was not altogether to be sneezed at. He had held the auditor's office for 14 years; in 1948, when Harry Truman was winning Ohio by a scant 7,107 votes, Joe Ferguson won re-election by 291,887-the biggest majority a Democrat ever got in the state...
Twenty hours of dianetic therapy "invariably" produces a "release," freedom from any and all psycho-somatic disorders--"a state superior to any produced by several years of psycho-analysis, since the release will not relapse." In the course of the treatment, an "auditor" (any layman who has purchased and read the textbook) induces a "dianetic reverie" in the patient, and, by suggestion and association, helps him "return" along his "time-tract" to relive his engrams. After recalling several times the speeches that have boxed him, the patient is free of their influence...