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Many political bosses have never served on National Committees nor have they accepted public office, but their power was just as extensive. It does not matter who is National Committeeman but what force lies behind the individual who holds the post. In the present instance, James A. Farley will be just as powerful when he resigns as chairman of the Democratic National Committee as if he had stayed in command. It is the Administration in office which says, as a rule, what shall be done in party councils. Meetings of the Democratic National Committee will be dominated by President Roosevelt...
...gallant, much-decorated lieutenant-colonel in the A.E.F., he returned to help organize the American Legion, serve two terms in New York's Assembly, three years (1921-24) as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. To help boys and Negroes he became a Boy Scout national executive committeeman, a trustee of Washington's Howard University. In 1929 President Hoover made him Governor of Puerto Rico. Conscientious, hardworking, sympathetic, he did his best to improve natives' health and prosperity, became as popular a governor as the island had ever had. He showed the same spirit, won the same reception...
Arthur F. Mullen balked at resigning his good job as Nebraska's Democratic National Committeeman just because he had been doing a thumping good business as a lawyer-lobbyist in Washington since last spring. Said he: "I do not claim to have any 'back door' to the White House and I practice law on my own merits alone. ... I have been a National Committeeman for many years and I have not found my profession in conflict with my office...
...hopped Committeeman John Camillus Lehr of Monroe. Mich., to shout: "I want it to appear on the Committee's record that there has never been a contraceptive in my home. I have six children...
Died. John Henry ("Uncle John") McCooey, 69, Democratic boss of Brooklyn since 1909, Democratic National Committeeman from New York; of myocarditis; in Brooklyn. A rotund, jovial man with sweeping white mustaches, he kept his machine firmly allied to Tammany Hall except for one quickly healed break in 1925. With the Fusion victory of last November he found his dominion slipping, saw Federal patronage dispensed in his own demesne without his consent...