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...Baby & Bath. Concluded the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Dorothy Thompson, after reviewing the current political sentiments of mugwumps like herself: "On the whole they would like to see this Administration go out. They have thought that Governor Landon was their man. But they want to be sure that certain gains that have been made will be consolidated. And that is just what they are beginning to doubt. They are afraid that the baby is going to be thrown out with the bath...
...first campaign tour had been accompanied by a Republican slump. Meanwhile John Hamilton and Frank Knox, both abler orators than the nominee, had been drumming into the country's head the idea that Republicans planned to throw out the New Deal bag & baggage, the baby with the bath. Also meanwhile, Franklin Roosevelt, resting the New Deal's case on its popular benefits, its aspirations and the undeniable fact of Recovery, was proceeding with a "non-political" campaign which, as Lacy Haynes' and Roy Roberts' Kansas City Star conceded of his Drought trip, was "politically a huge...
...tiny fishing village of Shelburne on Sunday he woke to a cold drizzle, decided to stay put for the day. Late that afternoon, looking healthier than he had since he arrived from his West Indies cruise last spring, the President was ferried over to the Potomac for a bath, a rubdown and his first shave since leaving Pulpit Harbor five days before...
...confused with Radiopriest Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit, John J. Coughlin is famed as much for his bright waistcoats, his huge paunch and his absurd poetry, as for his losing racehorses. A onetime rubber in a Turkish bath establishment, he saved his tips, opened a bathhouse of his own in 1890. First all-night establishment in the city, it prospered promptly, enabled Bathhouse John to get a grip on the Democratic vote of Chicago's First Ward which he has never lost. Huge, burly, white-haired, he keeps sacks of potatoes and bread to dole out to his constituents...
Healthy British humor continued to offset even such grisly prospects. In the Evening Standard inimitable Low cartooned two Britons with back-scratchers in a Turkish bath, one saying to the other: "Gad, sir, Mussolini is right! How can we expect him to behave decently, if we object to his dropping gas bombs...