Word: brann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barometer" election, her three incumbent representatives*-Republicans all (Messrs, Oliver, Smith, Brewster)-confused their New Deal issue by all plumping for the vote-catching Townsend Plan of old-age pensions. Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows had the benefit of an anti-third-term tradition against former Governor Louis J. Brann, for whom Crooner Rudy Vallée stumped at the last moment. That all four Republicans won was less of a weather vane than a what-is-it, unless significance lay in the vote ratios-5 to 4 Republican this year (gubernatorial) as against 4 to 3 Republican...
Telephoning his home, Augusta 840, Governor Louis J. Brann of Maine was connected with Leroy Weathers of the Weathers Transfer Co. in Augusta, Ga., who accepted the collect call...
Newcomers to the 1936-37 Who's Who in America: Physicist Albert Einstein, Senator Rose McConnel Long, Maine's Governor Louis Jefferson Brann, Stratospherists Orvil A, Anderson & Captain Albert William Stevens, Cinemactress Shirley Temple. Voluble Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo of Rochester, Minn, supplied the longest biography (151 lines), surpassing by one line Manhattan Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer...
...biggest GOP winner was Secretary of State Lewis O. Barrows, leading Democrat Dubord for the Governorship by 38,000 votes. Republican Congressional candidates were in the clear by 17,000 to 20,000 votes. But in Maine's prime race, Republican Senator White had beaten Democratic Governor Brann by a bare 4,000 plurality...
Simple was it now for the GOP to point to the Governor's popularity and non-New Dealism, change its tune from "A vote for Brann is a vote for the New Deal" to "A vote for Brann was a vote for Brann." But Republicans would have to talk loud & fast about their impressive clean sweep to convince the nation that Maine had not simply proved itself to be Maine, that Alf M. Landon...