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Nebraska's able, pay-as-you-go Governor Robert LeRoy Cochran delighted Administration Democrats by beating anti-Roosevelt, anti-Labor Senator Edward R. Burke in the primaries last April. But snow-haired, colorless Hugh A. Butler, former G. O. P. National Committeeman, who was expected to lose the election, turned up with enough votes to beat Governor Cochran...
...political advantage to the President of the trip; but it was great. There were innumerable signs of the aid to Democratic candidates carried by the power and prestige of the Presidency-"Senator Joe" Guffey put on a show of making up with Pennsylvania's Democratic National Committeeman David Lawrence by appearing with him on the train; hard-pressed Congressional Candidate Dow Harter received the Presidential blessing by appearing before his voters on the rear platform at Akron...
Maryland. Voters in Maryland's Democratic primary apathetically chose a wealthy china collector, Incumbent Senator George Radcliffe, over a wealthy fox hunter, National Committeeman Howard Bruce. A lone Republican gleam came only from the Sixth District, where onetime fireball Pitcher Walter Johnson was nominated for Congress, and granted a 50-50 chance of election. The "Big Train," now a farmer, brushed hog feed off the hands that once sent baseballs smoking, said modestly: "Gee whiz. . . . I aim to study up on them things [foreign affairs]. ... I know some fellas that know all about those things. . . ." Republicans. While straws...
...After hearing General Wesson, the House committeemen ap proved a $2,000,000 appropriation for fiscal 1941 with this significant reservation: "The committee is unwilling to take the responsibility of not doing so, even though it later may be found that we have gone ahead too rabidly." Said Committeeman D. Lane Powers (New Jersey): "We do not want to appropriate for . . . additional rifles if what we hear and what we read and what we are told by some well-informed people is true...
Loudest caterwauling came from New York, where Tom Dewey and New York County Chairman Kenneth Simpson came within an ace of saying what they thought about one another. A longstanding, bitter, personal enmity came out into the open. Said Deweyman Warren B. Ashmead, Queens County committeeman trying to oust Mr. Simpson as national committeeman: "There had to be a showdown sooner or later." Said Mr. Simpson: "I am now of course relieved from any further favorite-son support of Mr. Dewey...