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...field. But when Boss Guffey threw his 23 Pennsylvania votes to Alabama's Bankhead, it was all over on the second ballot. As a sop to the North and Tammany, the Democrats put New York City's Representative John J. O'Connor into the chairmanship of potent Rules Committee. Brother of Basil O'Connor, Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner, Representative O'Connor is, because of his habit of sneering at his opponents, one of the most unpopular members of a supposedly popular house...
...When the late Cyrus H. K. Curtis went from president of Curtis Publishing Co. to board chairman to make room for the "younger generation," George Horace Lorimer, then 64, succeeded to the presidency. Last week "Younger Generation" Lorimer moved up to the board chairmanship, vacant since Mr. Curtis' death last year, and was succeeded as president by Walter D. Fuller, vice president and secretary...
Twenty months ago Lord Linlithgow assumed chairmanship of Parliament's Joint Select India Committee: 16 members of the House of Lords, including a onetime Viceroy (the Marquess of Reading), and the Archbishop of Canterbury; and 16 members of the House of Commons, including Sir Austen Chamberlain and Laborite Miss Mary Pickford, who has since died. Their duty was to tie up the loose ends left by seven years of plodding British efforts to find for India a more liberal but not too liberal status...
...Franklin Roosevelt's candidate for a vacancy would have been Hiram Johnson of California. Last week he had his eye on Walter P. Stacy. Appointed Chief Justice of North Carolina when he was 40, Judge Stacy has made a record for himself in the New Deal by his chairmanship of the National Steel Labor Relations Board. With the other two members of the.Steel Board, he was drafted to the Textile Labor Relations Board (TIME...
...prospects for tomorrow promise the complete rout of Mr. Macy. Possibly in a last minute attempt he will throw his support to Mayor Marvin of Syracuse. But beaten he will resign the chairmanship and will probably be succeeded by Eaton. Moses undoubtedly will be nominated for Governor. The senatorship is in doubt with John Lord O'Brian coming into prominence as Ham Fish fades out, or there is a slight chance that the convention might indorse Breckinridge with his Constitutional Party. Then the fight will be on with small chance of victory. With the party in a bad mess anyway...