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...Montana, Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler who helped wreck the President's Court Plan last winter, unlike Wyoming's Anti-Court Plan Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (TIME, Oct. 4), did not race to board the Presidential special. Instead, from California, he telegraphed his regret that he could not be on hand to welcome the President to his State. At Fort Peck, largest earth dam in the world as Grand Coulee is the largest concrete-the President amiably gave credit to Senator James E. Murray and Representative James F. O'Connor and Jerry...
...regain control in a normally Democratic city, Boss Burr Gongwer, Congressman Martin L. Sweeney and ex-Mayor Harry L. Davis, Democrats long at outs, joined in supporting City Engineer John O. McWilliams in a supreme effort to bury the hatchet in the stout neck of Republican Mayor Harold Hitz Burton. They managed to line up organized labor. Representative Sweeney, mindful of next year's Congressional elections, sang the theme: "The election of McWilliams will deprive Mrs. Hanna of her caviar and champagne...
Handsome, bemustached Democrat McWilliams found himself pitted against the most popular Mayor Cleveland has elected since city managership was abandoned in 1929. Son of a professor of civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harold Burton migrated to Cleveland fresh from Harvard Law School, started practicing in 1912. He rode into the City Hall as a reform candidate in 1935. Now chunky, athletic and 49, Mayor Burton arrives at City Hall each morning at 8:30, works twelve hours a day, takes pride in his clean-up of the Cleveland police force, and although a Republican, claims credit for wangling...
...other candidates (including Charles H. ("Time Clock") Hubbell, who had One-Eyed Connolly for a campaign manager and got 724 votes), were also rans when the primary vote was counted. But Burton-McWilliams division of votes caused Clevelanders to open their eyes. Mayor Burton turned up with an unprecedented 10-7 margin over his Democratic opponent, although some 50% of the voters, including most of the independents, stayed at home. Astute observers foresaw Mayor Burton re-elected next month by a 50,000 majority...
...Federal Government's stronghold for hardened offenders. At Alcatraz trouble started last week when 23 prisoners refused to leave their cells to work. One hundred of the 280 inmates went on strike. When Warden James A. Johnston went to the prison mess-hall during inspection, Convict Burton Phillips, serving a life term for kidnapping, jumped on the 63-year-old warden from behind. Before guards could help him, Warden Johnston had been knocked down and savagely beaten...