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One day last week when Michigan counted its primary ballots the New Deal suffered two defeats. The first, utterly inglorious, involved Emil Hurja, Democratic Boss Farley's No. 1 assistant, who was disfranchised when the election board at Crystal Falls discovered that his absentee ballot was improperly witnessed. The...
In last week's primary old white-crested "Jim" Couzens lost to Wilber Marion Brucker, who was Republican Governor of Michigan until he was washed out on the ebb of the Old Deal tide in 1932. Last April when Mr. Brucker decided to run against Senator Couzens he had...
Candidate Brucker harped on Senator Couzens' defection so much that he was nicknamed "The Toy Hoover." But even these harpings did not seem to damage the Couzens popularity in Michigan at first. Instead of grubbing for renomination in the primary campaign, the Senator rented a yacht, disdainfully went off...
From that moment observers agreed that Senator Couzens would be beaten by himself and his suicidal devotion to the New Deal. Few dreamed, however, how bad that beating would be. Not only did "Jim" Couzens fall badly behind in Michigan as a whole, but even in Detroit, where his friends...
Besides the shock of having Senator Couzens badly beaten for trying to cross party lines and espouse the cause of Franklin Roosevelt, New Dealers had another in the Democratic primary for Senator. Representative Prentiss M. Brown of St. Ignace in upper Michigan, while not well-known throughout the State, was...