Word: brann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second seat in the House now occupied by Democrat John G. Utterback. But for two other jobs lost to the Democrats in 1932, their hopes were far from high: Maine's third seat in the House, held by Edward Carleton Moran Jr.; Maine's Governorship, held by Louis J. Brann...
...difficulty of defeating Governor Brann lay in his big personal popularity. Knowing Maine's inborn conservatism, he did not pose as an ardent supporter of the New Deal. But he made use of New Deal support. Army engineers had rejected a proposed PWA project to spend $48,000,000 to harness the huge tides of Passamaquoddy Bay. President Roosevelt, however, wrote Mr. Brann expressing his interest in the project. During the campaign Secretary Ickes went to make a personal inspection?to see whether the Army engineers might not have been wrong. Thus Democrats dangled hope of a New Deal plum...
...Against Governor Brann the Republican candidate, Alfred K. Ames, an elderly retired lumber merchant, was no match in political give & take. But Republicans swarmed to his aid. To Maine they sent Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Representative Hamilton Fish, Col. Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News, Representative Allen T. Treadway, and many another. Senator Hale declared flatly that to re-elect Governor Brann would be to endorse the New Deal...
Maine. Many a jobless citizen was deprived of voting for Democrat Louis Jefferson Brann last September because...
State Constitution disfranchises as "paupers" all who receive public relief. Last week Governor Brann, first of his party to hold the office in 18 years, recommended a change in the law "differentiating between the habitual claimant for supplies and the hard-working industrious citizen temporarily receiving assistance." He also declared the Maine treasury was in "a very serious condition," promised to give up part of his $5,000 salary...