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...help. Unfortunately surveys by PWA and the Federal Power Commission rejected the Cooper project as uneconomical. In the summer of 1934, with a new Congress coming up for election and the old saw. "As-Goes-Maine-so-Goes-the-Nation," in many a mind. President Roosevelt wrote Democratic Governor Brann of Maine that the Federal Government would certainly look seriously into the Quoddy project...
With the President back in Washington, the business of the U. S. once more got under way with a Cabinet meeting. Governor Brann of Maine, who threatened to quit the Democratic ticket, had to be seen and conciliated. General Johnson ("stage money") Hagood had to be seen and given command of the Sixth Corps Area at Chicago in place of the Texas command from which he was ousted two months...
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...