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...ballot that confronted Wisconsin voters was a complex maze. For Roosevelt there were two slates: one an anti-Hoover-Democrat group headed by Gustave Keller, Appleton lawyer, chummy with La Folletteers; one a "Roosevelt-Farley" ticket, headed by Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan politician, made up of machine Democrats. For John Nance Garner was a slate bossed by John J. Slocum, Assembly clerk, expected to attract many an anti-Term III voter who would rather protest a Roosevelt re-election than choose between Messrs. Dewey and Vandenberg...
...date trading floor in the world. Toronto likes to think of this new building as symbolizing not only the new importance of its mining mart but the coming of age of the Dominion's most boisterous industry. To mark this notable event with appropriate fanfare, President Harry Broughton Housser scheduled not one but two formal openings...
...luncheon table sat four potent political bigwigs: 1) Postmaster General Farley bringing tidings of the state of Democracy as far west as Hawaii; 2) Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago; 3) Democratic National Chairman Charles E. Broughton of Wisconsin; 4) Robert H. Jackson, Counsel to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, power in upper New York State politics...
...faculty members of one college, to discover men of national prominence in their respective lines. What of Professor Mason, an authority in the study of Romance Literature? What of Professor Prescott, author of recent critical books of considerable value, including Poetry and Myth? What of Professor Broughton, a most eminent scholar of Wordsworthiana? What of Professor J. Q. Adams, author of numerous studies of Shakespeare and his times? What of Professor Ries, whom all geologists know and admire...
...them: "There is no neutral ground in this [ Prohibition] war. It is a 'war to the knife and knife to the hilt' between the forces of sobriety and orderly government on the one hand and the forces of liquor and lawlessness on the other." Dr. Leonard Gaston Broughton (a doctor of medicine as well as of divinity), also of Atlanta, had urged them: to support that "oldtime Baptist spiritual Evangelism to preach the doctrine of sin and salvation, and quicken the backslidden churches and reach the unsaved. . . . Those intellectual, or handpicked, or gumshoe Evangelisms in which some...