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Fortnight ago Senator Robert Johns Bulkley of Ohio, facing a primary fight against a hard roads ex-Governor this August, proposed a network of 100 ft. express highways which would avoid towns and cities, shoot directly across and up & down the U. S. There were to be seven North-South routes, three transcontinental. Total cost: $8,000,000,000, to be met in 16 years by tolls and leases of concession privileges along the way. Last week in the House, Alabama's Representative Henry B. Steagall, more famed for banking than transportation legislation, introduced a companion measure...
...carried out by the Department of the Interior, calls for a vast airport at each of the 18 superhighway intersections. Nor does Representative Snyder overlook patronage possibilities. He would have the Government let the job to private contractors in sections no less than 10 miles long. Unlike Senator Bulkley, Congressman Snyder would run his superhighways through large cities, where votes are most plentiful. In fact, two of his superhighways rather obviously jog to make an intersection at Uniontown, Pa., in Mr. Snyder's home district...
...introduced a bill last year proposing that eight billion dollars be spent for three great transcontinental toll roads, and seven running north and south, chances are that condemnation from Congress, the White House and the press would have been violent and immediate. Yet when Ohio's Robert Johns Bulkley introduced just such a bill in the Senate last week, the reaction was one of tolerant understanding. Neither the President nor any member of Congress could blame Bob Bulkley, for two of his proposed roads would run through Ohio, and on August 9 Ohio Democrats will choose between Robert Bulkley...
...Congress the Bulkley proposal was but one more symptom of the fact that 1938 is an even-numbered year. In odd-numbered years, like 1937, the undisputed political capital of the U. S. is the disfranchised district of Washington, D. C. But in even-numbered years, like 1938, primaries and elections turn the political tides back from the Potomac to be replenished by votes. Swirling and churning through thousands of U. S. county seats and many a State capital, by last week the active electoral waves had already begun to sway the political fortunes of 1938 and beyond...
Beside the Senate fight between Roadbuilder Bulkley and Roadbuilder White, Ohio was looking forward to one of the liveliest gubernatorial battles of the year. At the Jackson Day dinner in Columbus, Democratic National Committeeman Charles Sawyer jarred many a diner by delivering a harangue against the "corruption and graft rampant" during the two administrations of Democratic Governor Martin Luther Davey. Practical Committeeman Sawyer's unsurprising solution was to enter the gubernatorial primary himself. Tree-Surgeon Davey, who once enjoyed a reputation as a champion of Labor, prejudiced it when he helped break the strike in Little Steel last summer...