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Some hope also the liberals place on Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts, the baby of the Court, who is a mere 59. He was a corporation lawyer in Pennsylvania until President Coolidge put him in charge of the criminal prosecution of the Naval Oil Scandals. He sent Albert Bacon Fall to jail for a year, and made a great public name for himself, to boot. On the Supreme Court, to which President Hoover appointed him in 1930, he has been conservative-he voted with the majority on the Oklahoma Ice case-but he has also been New Dealish, voting with...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934. But this lisping ex-Easterner had plenty of other radical support. Into New Mexico to campaign for him went Montana's Wheeler, Colorado's Cortigan, Wisconsin's La Follette, Nebraska's Norris. The A. F. of L. endorsed and Albert Bacon Fall called him '"unbeatable." Yet last week Senator Cutting was beaten by Democrat Dennis Chavez. Strangely enough, Senator-elect Chavez could thank in no small measure for his success the efforts in his behalf of the tall greying daughter of the late great Republican Boss Mark Hanna. Outdone with...
...enthusiastic if somewhat juvenile support of Son James Roosevelt got a better office out of the New Deal than the Ambassadorship of Poland which he spurned When Franklin Roosevelt offered it last year. Without the support of many a potent Massachusetts Democrat and in spite of Republican Gasper Bacon's hammer & tongs attack on his record, Votegetter Curley piled up a majority for Governor bigger than the Democratic majority...
...adipose individual with his vest open is going to make an announcement: "146 Precincts. Goodwin--10,072; Bacon--31,089; Curley...
Everyone cheers. The crowd goes wild. The cloud of tobacco smoke eddies and swirls with the commotion. Another of the platform heroes steps forward. "Now, I don't want to speak ill of the dead," be begins. Silence. "So I won't say anything against Bacon." Again silence. He waits. Number 1 of the twin-bellies laughs uproariously. The crowd laughs. The speaker has said something fanny. More humor. The crowd laughs some more. The band plays "My Wild Irish Rose...