Word: brann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With continual talk of politics and business drifting through the blue haze of Corona-Coronas, Committee of 100 meetings are not free from suspicions of babbittry. Last week the members heard Governor Scholtz extol Florida and Governor Brann extol Maine. Then, as representatives of a sizable slice of the nation's total un-redistributed wealth, they settled down to grumbling about the New Deal. Sample sentiments...
...crowd were Governors Lehman of New York, Hoffman of New Jersey, Earle of Pennsylvania, Cross of Connecticut. Fitzgerald of Michigan, Brann of Maine. There were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats...
...McDonough married a school teacher named Mildred Ernestine Reed. The bridegroom was an A. E. F. veteran, an Elk, an Eagle, the president of the Maine Association of Football Officials and, most important of all, the State Relief Administrator. Among the distinguished guests at his wedding was Louis J. Brann, who had just made Democratic history by being re-elected Governor of Maine. Home from their honeymoon last week, Mr. & Mrs. McDonough suddenly discovered that their marriage had also helped to make national history...
...bitterly complained, was Maine. Final returns from last fortnight's election there were heralded by Postmaster Farley as "proof ample that the New Deal meets with the majority of the people." In winning the first re-election of a Democratic Governor since the Civil War, Louis J. Brann had not let Maine's electorate forget that in the past two years $108,000,000 of Federal money had been pumped into the State, which was five times the Government largess given Republican New Hampshire. The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune editorialized: "Maine Votes For Santa Claus...
Then Maine went to the polls. With 604 out of 631 precincts reported, Governor Brann had 164,087 votes, his opponent 32,956 less. Senator Hale had 137,149, a lead of 1,155. With complete returns from the first district, Carroll Beedy was defeated by Simon M. Hamlin, Democrat and self-styled "dirt farmer...