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Kept ignorant of their chief's deal with the social service center, that 30 percent of the earnings be turned over to the annual's sponsors, the committeeman, speaking for his seven penniless colleagues, said, "If they kick it back to P. B. H. we wouldn't yell. The idea of his making a clean-up stirs us to protest...
Beside the Senate fight between Roadbuilder Bulkley and Roadbuilder White, Ohio was looking forward to one of the liveliest gubernatorial battles of the year. At the Jackson Day dinner in Columbus, Democratic National Committeeman Charles Sawyer jarred many a diner by delivering a harangue against the "corruption and graft rampant" during the two administrations of Democratic Governor Martin Luther Davey. Practical Committeeman Sawyer's unsurprising solution was to enter the gubernatorial primary himself. Tree-Surgeon Davey, who once enjoyed a reputation as a champion of Labor, prejudiced it when he helped break the strike in Little Steel last summer...
...McNutt Presidential boom started on schedule January 21 when the State Democratic Committee met at the late Senator Tom Taggart's rococo hotel at French Lick Springs, accepted the resignation of Son Tom Taggart Jr. as national committeeman, elected as his successor Indianapolis Lawyer Frank McHale, deep-voiced, burly onetime University of Michigan footballer, original McNutt-for-President man. Also proceeding on schedule was the campaign against Senator Van Nuys, long on the outs with the McNutt-Townsend-Minton "two percent club," the machine organization to which State employes kick back that share of their salary. Having forfeited...
...midst of a Senate squabble on the Housing Bill, Nevada's spare Key Pittman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, rose to answer the charge made day before by California's Hiram Johnson, a fellow committeeman, that the U. S. "had no foreign policy." Mr. Johnson advanced the theory that the State Department's protestations of peace were at odds with the President's threat of "quarantining" aggressor nations. In his Chief's defense, Senator Pittman declared: "When the President of the U. S. first entered office he announced what I consider the fundamental foreign...
Contemptuously, the School Committeeman also said among other things, "If our sons do not go to Harvard, that's too bad. We shall educate them better ourselves...