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Alabama broke the tradition of a solid Dry South by going 3-to-2 for Repeal. A sour political note was struck by Judge Oliver Day Street, Alabama's Republican national committeeman. who told his slim following: "If Repeal is a Democratic measure and if President Roosevelt desires it, this should be sufficient proof that it is no Republican measure and no Republican has any business voting...
Marriage Revealed. Helen Morgan, 28, torch singer; and Maurice ("Bud") Maschke Jr., Harvard Law School graduate, son of onetime Republican National Committeeman Maurice Maschke of Ohio; last May in New Castle...
...matter while Congress was in session, contented himself with broad hints that if the 18th Amendment were revoked by Jan. 1, he would drop special emergency taxes on gasoline, dividends, corporate profits to finance the Federal building program (TIME. May 29). Last week he took occasion to telegraph National Committeeman Leon McCord of Alabama...
...list. Morgan "friends" were in the Senate (California's McAdoo, New Jersey's Kean), in the Hoover Cabinet (Secretary of the Navy Adams), in the Roosevelt Cabinet (Secretary of the Treasury Woodin), on the Supreme Court (Owen J. Roberts). The Republican party (Treasurer Nutt, New York National Committeeman Hilles) and the Democratic (onetime Chairman Raskob) were both involved. Declared the cautious Kansas City Times: "Those favored by Morgan were placed under obligation to him. Some of them were in positions that made the acceptance of such obligation a matter of loose ethics, to say the least." Without effort...
...Senate, "Brother Charley" pondered ways & means of appointing himself to the vacancy. His doctors told him he would never reach Washington alive, and the Senate would not swear him in in his bedroom at Lincoln. A bitter party feud between the Governor and Arthur Mullen, Democratic national committeeman, also helped to stalemate the Senatorial choice. Democrat Mullen wanted to consolidate his grip on Federal patronage by getting his friend Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, one-time (1911-23) Senator, back into his old job. But Governor Bryan was in no mood to foreclose his own chance of going to the Senate...