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Since 1914 the undergraduate clubs have agreed that their members will not canvass members of the Freshman class and that they will not elect any undergraduate before the fourth Monday after the opening of College in his Sophomore year, and that no pledge or promise from any Sophomore shall be accepted before the Friday following the fourth Monday...
...told that he must revamp his personal campaign, get out to the country, make speeches, meet the Roosevelt challenge. He was urged to make a four-week tour ending in California on election eve. His advisers reminded him that Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Borah, mainstays in his 1928 canvass, were not campaigning for him again this year, hinted that he would have to carry more of the party load...
Next week California Democrats will hold a hot primary to nominate a Senator. Franklin Delano Roosevelt will be nowhere in sight. Recalling the Hughes campaign incident as a horrible example of political mismanagement, this year's Democratic presidential nominee rejected all requests to open his canvass in California during August. He refused to jeopardize his middling good chance to carry the State by becoming embroiled in a local contest. From Albany last week he announced that he would stump California?but not until late September when the primary is but a memory...
...Senator wooed the Wets with talk of Resubmission, then the Drys with a declaration against Repeal. Most likely beneficiary of these Shortridgean straddles is Mr. Tubbs who stands to gain "regular" votes on the World Court, Wet votes on his outright Repeal plank. Energetic Candidate Tubbs has, during his canvass, startled many a back-countryman by dropping down realistically in remote corners of the State in his autogyro to hold rallies...
Prohibition, livest subject in a lifeless convention, was utterly ignored by Keynoter Dickinson-a possible indication that the G. O. P., regardless of platform declarations, would shy from the issue in the national canvass...