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...left the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor open, in hopes the state Republicans would choose that candidate, thus permitting the two groups to coalesce against the regular Democrats. Nominee Brown, a 35-year-old professor of psychology at Washington & Lee University, was described as the state's "most cantankerous and catamountish campaigner," but when led to the platform he turned out to be a mild-mannered polite gentle man, still trailing a classroom atmosphere after him as he pleaded against bitterness, called the conventioneers "pioneers in a new era of humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: New Era of Humanity | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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