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This year three of President Roosevelt's New Deal friends are up for re-election to the Senate: Republican Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, Republican Hiram Johnson of California, Progressive Robert La Follette of Wisconsin. Last January the President publicly announced that he favored Senator Johnson's reelection, thus putting out of joint the nose of many an ambitious California Democrat. On his way back from Hawaii the President, speaking at Green Bay, Wis., is expected to put the stamp of his personal approval on Senator La Follette's candidacy...
...Mexico, he looked at the case of Bronson Cutting and blinked. Speaking at Albuquerque, he praised the Senator for campaigning for Roosevelt in 1932 and then told his Democratic friends: "I know that a lot of people want to know what attitude will be taken on local politics in this State. That is a matter for you to decide." The bitterness of Cuttingites at the failure of Boss Farley to endorse the Senator's candidacy was summed up by the Albuquerque Tribune: "The bold and brutal truth is that among politicians there is no sense of justice...
...AMERICAN HERO-F. W. Bronson- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). There are two kinds of irony, intellectual and visceral. Irony from the stomach is the rarer, and when it is applied by a young writer to his own time there are few literary veins more satisfying. Author Bronson's "hero" is apparently an amalgam of the potentialities of different young men he knew at Yale, melted down into a character as thoroughly "American" as Booth Tarkington's Plutocrat. Jonathan ("Johnny," "O. K.") Green is a redheaded, good-natured ruffian from a small town in Pennsylvania. His ability to smash chins...
...this a ripple of laughter ran around the Senate chamber, was duly reported in the Congressional Record. Next day when New Mexico's wealthy dapper Bronson Cutting, protagonist for increased pensions, spotted the tell-tale "(Laughter)" in the Record, he stormed into the Senate chamber, raised his lisping voice in anger...
...touring S. S. Lafayette was held "up in Colon, Panama, quarantined for half an hour, waiting for New Mexico's U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting...