Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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California. Republicans renominated their ten Congressmen, Democrats their one. Mayor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of San Francisco, won the Republican gubernatorial nomination over Governor Clement Calhoun Young...
Idaho. For the fifth time Republicans assembled in convention at Idaho Falls nominated Senator William Edgar Borah for the Senate. One vote was cast against him. Senator Borah rested 2,000 mi. away in the Maine woods. Idaho's two Republican Congressmen, Burton Lee French and Addison Taylor Smith, were renominated. To John McMurray of Oakley went the Republican gubernatorial nomination...
...Senator Blease defeated Candidate Byrnes in a similar run-off for the Senatorial nomination after a whispering campaign had revived the fact that Byrnes was born and brought up a Roman Catholic in Charleston only to leave that faith when he entered politics. South Carolina's seven Democratic Congressmen were all renominated. Eight candidates sought the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Olin D. Johnson, 35, on a pledge to stop work on the State's much-needed $65,000,000 road program, led the field, will enter the second primary...
Mississippi. Democratic Senator Pat Harrison and seven Democratic Congressmen were renominated without opposition. Congressmen Ross Alexander Collins won renomination after a close contest. The Senate Slush Fund Committee held a special meeting at Fargo, N. Dak., to investigate charges that Chicago detectives were trailing its chairman, Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. One detective admitted that he had been assigned the task of looking up Senator Nye's "life" but insisted he was not trying to get something on him. Asked by newsmen if he thought the detective had been employed by friends of Illinois' Republican Senatorial Nominee...
...last time most of his fellow Congressmen had seen him was on the session's closing day when, snoring loudly, he napped on a lounge in the House lobby, with a white lily in one hand, in the other a bill for Federal eradication of venereal diseases by an expenditure of $50,000,000. Said he on leaving the Capitol : "The smell of liquor on all sides has sickened...