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...week approached her primary elections (August 2) as embarrassed as a family whose freak son is the only one who ever gets his picture in the newspapers. Numerous normal politicians were running for office but the only candidate whose name the rest of the country heard was Rev. Gerald Burton Winrod. He is 39, a grey-eyed, deep-voiced radio spellbinder from Wichita, with black hair like William Jennings Bryan's, an evangelist whose congregation is "the entire United States and Canada." Because it looked last week as though Mr. Winrod might win the Republican nomination for Senator from...
Bald "baby" Representative Jerry J. O'Connell in Montana's 1st Congressional District (western part of the State) was last week renominated by Montana Democrats. That event made little difference to most people except Montana's Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Nationally famed as a "liberal" before Mr. O'Connell, now 29, was wearing long pants, Mr. Wheeler, 56, has been pilloried as a "reactionary" by O'Connell's clamoring about the votes Burton Wheeler cast against the President's Supreme Court plan and the Government Reorganization bill. Loud Mr. O'Connell...
...odds with the church administration because he thinks it has introduced too much business into religion, Businessman Babson arrived at the convention with a plan to reduce the church officials' power. At the opening session Dr. Charles Emerson Burton, retiring general secretary, replied to Moderator Babson's charges, agreed that Congregationalist ministers' salaries (average: $1,663) are too low, but declared the remedy is more businesslike money-raising, added: "Our men are not whining much...
...Burton H. Pugh, Mr. G. W. Thain, Mr. J. Wm. Cummins seem to be having a fit of indigestion over the publication of the picture on the front cover. May I suggest a dose of Carter's Little Liver Pills? Aren't some of the things that Americans hold dear the rights of free speech, free press...
...Temple). But this year's commencements produced a remarkable political echo. Honorary degrees went to no fewer than three of President Roosevelt's opponents in last year's battle over the Supreme Court-Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (Union College), Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler (American University, Washington, D. C.) and Wyoming's Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney (Columbia). Most outspoken was Columbia, braintrusters' hothouse but still run by G. O. Pundit Nicholas Murray Butler, which declared Senator O'Mahoney had "made his name memorable through an influential...