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Republicans everywhere, scanning the Roosevelt drought, went crazy over this sign of rain. They were comparatively unexcited by another Ohio G. O. P. victory, the expected 2-to-1 election of plutocratic Frances Payne Bingham Bolton* of Cleveland to succeed her late husband, Chester C. Bolton. Sharp-witted Mrs. Bolton was a gilt-edged financial asset, but Coshocton Contractor McGregor was a real homespun portent...
When Michigan's Senator James Couzens died in 1936, leaving $34,000,000, the title "richest man in Congress" passed to Old-Guard Republican Congressman Chester Castle Bolton of Lyndhurst (suburban Cleveland), Ohio, son of the late, great Mark Hanna's business partner. Mr. Bolton's personal check for $125,000 assured Cleveland the 1936 Republican convention; his champagne reassured 500 Party bigwigs at the convention's swankest reception. Chester Bolton, popular though rich, died last October...
...this week's Republican primary to select a successor to Chester Bolton, his widow, Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, who campaigned for him since 1932, is unopposed. After the special election late this month observers expect the title "richest man in Congress" to pass to Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, 54, mother of three grown sons. Supposed to be even wealthier than her late husband, Mrs. Bolton is the rich and comely daughter of a pioneer Cleveland banker and industrialist, granddaughter of Senator Henry B. Payne. She gave $2,250,000 for Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Western Reserve...
...money to Mrs. Bolton will be $10,000 tendered her by an act of Congress, "to supply urgent deficiencies." Congress appropriated a like sum to each of six other widows of Congressmen, including Mrs. William E. Borah (see p. 38). The Act, passed by both Houses last week, awaited the signature of the President. Like her husband, whose 1938 campaign expenditures came to $120.94, Mrs. Bolton refuses to spend any more to get elected than the price of an evening...
...Bolton has gone about her political career as quietly as she would order a dinner for eight. Three years ago, Congressman George H. Bender blasted away at "royalists of the Republican Party," and "pocketbook domination of its councils." Replied Mrs. Bolton: "None of us has any rights except those we earn." To Boss Bender, Mrs. Bolton is now an "ideal candidate...