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...Democratic primary, addressed the judge: ''Let's get this matter straight. Just to show there was no politics in it, Governor Murphy is a Democrat and you are a Democrat.'' "I am not," cried Judge Gadola. "I am a Republican! Until this New Deal coattail parade started, there wasn't a Democratic judge in Michigan...
...true that some Roosevelt coattail riders got short rides. But since the total number of Republican votes cast was so small that it was virtually ignored by the public, Chairman Hamilton's remark was characteristically optimistic. The Illinois primary was chiefly significant to Illinois, and since 1933 the time-honored complexities of Illinois politics have had, as their central theme, the struggle for State control between Democratic Governor Henry Horner and Chicago's Democratic Kelly-Nash machine. Last week victories of his two candidates for Senator and county judge made it look as though Governor Horner had finally...
...longtime (1887-1932) authoritative U. S. Labor Department statistician; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington. Rebuked for disputing Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak's optimistic statement that employment was rising in 1932, he retired, drawled: "I have had a tin can tied to the end of my coattail...
...first entered the limited vocabulary of the average citizens (circa 1919), there has never been a convention of organized labor in which it was not denounced. Better that a U. S. labor leader should have his face covered with mud than that "Bolshevist" should be tagged on to his coattail...
...delegates, to Indianapolis, headquarters of the U. M. W. He is not a Communist. It is even doubtful whether he could be ranked as a Socialist. But he is the perpetual opposition candidate for President of the U. M. W. against Mr. Lewis. And hanging metaphorically to his coattail was one Powers Hapgood, nephew of Norman Hapgood, onetime Hearstling. Powers Hapgood graduated from Harvard in 1921* and is a Socialist. He may be a Communist. In a hotel lobby some Lewis men hit him with clenched fists. He hit some Lewis men, and was despatched to a police court...