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...Swore in Dennis Chavez as Senator from New Mexico, succeeding the late Bronson Cutting who was killed while returning from New Mexico on a trip concerned with the election contest filed against him by Democrat Chavez. Fellow Progressives in the Senate, devoted to Senator Cutting, hotly resented the Administration's efforts to displace him through the Chavez candidacy and subsequent contest (TIME, May 20). This week, as Senator-Designate Chavez reached Vice President Garner's desk, after marching down the aisle to take his oath, the only Progressives present-Senators La Follette. Norris, Johnson, Nye and Shipstead-ostentatiously...
...Bronson Cutting, however, was not a dilettante in New Mexico but a buster of the best-laid plans of politicians. In that machine-ridden State he won a following of Spanish-American voters, of War veterans, of political liberals, all of whose languages he spoke, whose interests he championed. Although a nominal Republican he fought and broke Albert Fall's Republican machine. In 1924 he helped elect a Democratic Senator, Sam Bratton, and in 1926 a Republican Governor, Richard C. Dillon. Following year Governor Dillon named him to a vacancy in the U. S. Senate. As a Republican Senator...
Third group which followed Bronson Cutting to his grave were the liberals of Congress. When he joined them seven years ago, an unassuming young bachelor from New Mexico, he did not seem a promising member of a group which is traditionally composed of the prima donnas of politics. He was neither fire-eater nor spellbinder, but to the liberals he became something more useful. In his quiet way he cemented the bonds between them, often persuaded them to hang together instead of flying off in a dozen individual directions. When the news of Bronson Cutting's death was brought...
Their sentiment was the stronger because they felt that Cutting had died under persecution. In 1932 Bronson Cutting and Franklin Roosevelt virtually fell into each other's political arms. There was every reason for their doing so; they had in common Groton, Harvard, a back-ground of wealth and a love for forgotten men. By 1934 Franklin Roosevelt was at Bronson Cutting's political throat. The break between them was not spectacular. The beginning of it, though neither of them recognized it. took place before the Roosevelt inauguration when Senator Cutting, independent as always, declined...
...victory was contested. Although the liberal-progressive bloc and the New Deal still continued their tacit working agreement, Cutting became the symbol of a basic flaw in that agreement. Then last fortnight, returning from New Mexico where he had been attending to the contest for his seat, Bronson Cutting crashed in Missouri. Franklin Roosevelt had lost his outstanding liberal opponent. Day after the Cutting funeral Democratic Governor Clyde Tingley appointed Dennis Chavez to the Senate, and the President's practical if not moral triumph was complete...