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Politics was more obviously and exclusively the news-burden borne by other visitors-Charles Beecher Warren, National G. O. P. Committeeman from Michigan; Assistant Secretary of Commerce Walter F. Brown, Ohio organizer; Senator Capper of Kansas; Irvine Luther Lenroot, onetime (1918-27) Wisconsin Senator...
Died. James B. Laughlin, 64, executive Committeeman, onetime (1914) treasurer, and grandson of Founder James Laughlin of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh; in Hyannisport, Mass...
...status of Senator Moses found it, or thought they did, in the Senator's wetness. He is a much too forthright gentleman to have concealed his personal convictions on the Wet side. There he stands with Senators Edge of New Jersey and Reed of Pennsylvania, and National Committeeman J. Henry Roraback of Connecticut. Though long potent in G. O. P. councils, all are now most inconspicuous in the Hoover movement with the exception of Senator Moses, who had to fight for the place he did get. If Hoover is elected with Republican Dryness a dominant issue, the Moses record...
...outside chance for the Republicans to drive home the Methodist-Baptist bone-dry wedge and split off a piece or two of the Solid South, the man to swing the sledge is saturnine Campbell Bascom Slemp, President Coolidge's onetime (1923-25) secretary, the Republican National Committeeman from Virginia. He it is who knows the ways, light and dark, of Southern Republicans. He it was who, last week, immediately after the Anti-Smith Democrats had said their say for Hoover at Asheville, N. C. (see p. 9), was appointed a "special assistant" by National Republican Chairman Dr. Work...
Nominee Smith's reply to his colleague's warning was a decision to let well enough alone and not have any Southern campaign headquarters. To do otherwise, he thought, would be to admit and thus foster uncertainty about the South. Following this news, National Committeeman John S. Cohen of Georgia was reported to have laid aside his anti-Smith sentiments. And from North Carolina came word that the last really potent political boss against Smith-Senator Furnifold M. Simons-was going to "stand hitched" and perhaps even draw his weight...