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...Democratic State Convention refused to endorse Democratic Senatorial Nominee Carpenter. Chiefly because of him, Senator Edward Burke resigned as Democratic National Committeeman. Nominee Carpenter went to the National Convention in Philadelphia, could not even get in to see National Boss Farley. In Washington President Roosevelt politely received him, firmly informed him that he was first, last and always for Republican George Norris. In Nebraska 40,000 citizens nominated Senator Norris by petition, Democrats swung in behind him, and Nominee Carpenter was strongly urged to withdraw from the contest...
...fact that the Rust brothers are conscientious Socialists and have promised to cushion the impact of the machine on Negro labor, advocated sinking the picker in the Mississippi River, together with its plans and specifications. In Tennessee, which still has antiEvolution laws on its books. Democratic National Committeeman Edward Hull Crump, boss of Memphis (TIME, Aug. 17), predicted that an anti-Picker statute could be passed in his State...
...sudden and not so sudden, are fabulous and some of them are real. Dean of the gold mining business is old Judge John W. Haussermann, who went to the Philippines 38 years ago as a second lieutenant of the 20th Kansas regiment and returned last July as Republican National Committeeman to hear Alf Landon accept his Presidential nomination. The tale concerning him is that anyone who put $100 into his Benguet Consolidated Mining 25 years ago would be worth $500,000 today. Even so, although he nursed his company along since 1909 it did not get into the big money...
...prove this broad indictment, Secretary Ickes turned to a Chicago court record in which Illinois' Republican National Committeeman George F. Harding last July excused his absence from a hearing to the judge on the ground that it had been necessary for him to fly to California to talk with Mr. Hearst. As proof of his journey, he offered a letter Mr. Hearst had written him confirming their conversation. From this document Secretary Ickes quoted Publisher Hearst as follows: "The average politician around him [Landon] is continually urging him to get out and talk. Talk is the method...
...visiting his ailing Secretary of War at Walter Reed Hospital, motored 20 miles into Maryland to Oxon Hill Manor, country house of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles. There the President conferred with some 30 local Democrats, including Maryland's Senator Radcliffe, Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, National Committeeman Howard Bruce. When the Baltimore Sun discovered this privy excursion, newshawks rushed to the White House to question Press Secretary Stephen Early who told them without cracking a smile that the Maryland meeting had been merely social. Up piped United Pressman Fred Storm: "Say, Steve, is this going...