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...Senate seat. Messrs. Donahey and White were both candidates for the Democratic nomination, Governor White campaigning as champion of the New Deal, "Vic" Donahey, lukewarm on New Deal policies, rounding up votes among his old friends, Ohio's farmers. After the campaign was under way Mr. Cox and Senator Bulkley jumped in with what they called "the choice of the Administration"?Representative Charles West. Three-cornered the battle waged, the most excited primary that Ohio has had in many a year?White and West trying to outshout each other in New Deal enthusiasm until even "Vic" Donahey repented...
...Washington, where Ohio's Senators Fess and Bulkley called at RFC headquarters to put in a good word for a state industry, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones seemed sympathetic. Willys-Overland had applied for its loan a month before, not directly, but through a mortgage association. Thus the application did not technically come under the Direct Loans to Industry bill which President Roosevelt signed last week and which limits to $500,000 the amount of money RFC may loan to one company...
...drained the last drops of beer & ale in their Restaurant. But they did not get away from Washington that night, thanks to the Senate. In that august chamber bitter legislative rivalries at the last minute thwarted the Administration's best plans for a quick adjournment. Ohio's Bulkley started the tangle with a measure for minor amendments to the Banking Act-1933. Washington's Dill and Michigan's Couzens leaped in with a measure to apply collective bargaining to the railroads and their workers. Louisiana's Long stood on the sidelines waiting for a chance...
...even the Declaration of Independence had no influence on Senators bent on passing the Stock Exchange Bill as the Administration wanted it. One by one all attempts at pulling its teeth were overridden with dispatch. When Wall Street heard that Ohio's Senator Bulkley had been able to pick up 30 votes, including Senator Carter Glass's, for an amendment banning all margin trading, the last slim hope for a moderate measure disappeared. Stock Exchange seats plummeted to $100,000, down $40,000 from last month, $90,000 from last February...
Married. Senator Robert Johns Bulkley, 53, of Ohio; and Mrs. Helen Graham Robbins, 30, of Lindsay, Ontario; in Manhattan...