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...boldly for his race. As a result of last fortnight's election, when Southern Congressmen return to the Capitol on Jan. 3, they will find Representative De Priest gone. But their racial embarrassment will be more rather than less because they will find sitting squarely in their Demo cratic midst another Chicago Negro by the name of Arthur W. Mitchell. They may object to the color of their new col league's skin but they can find no legitimate fault with his politics...
...defeated in the Democratic primary, and cast adrift by the Roosevelt Administration, Nominee Sinclair could draw little encouragement from a belated speech by California's Senator McAdoo at Phoenix, Ariz, in which he ambiguously declared: "I am supporting the Democratic party in California as I am supporting the Demo-cratic party in Arizona and the Demo-cratic party in America." Senator McAdoo's law partner, William H. Neblett, was voting for Republican Nominee Frank Merriam because "Sinclair's program is nothing more than a contest of the unemployed against the employed...
...monotonous series of espousals of lost causes. A Bryan stumpster, he ran for everything unsuccessfully until Pittsburgh, as normally Republican as Mecca is Mohammedan, threw out its corrupt and long-lived G. O. P. machine last autumn (TIME, Nov. 20, 1933). Lawyer McNair happened to be the Demo cratic candidate. Pittsburgh Democrats say of their Mayor: "We voted for a machinegun but got a phonograph record...
...platform committee of the Demo-cratic party is composed of one member who sits regularly at the President's desk at the White House. Not for months has that committee addressed "my friends" by radio. Last week he penned a piece of political literature that will be quoted and requoted throughout the land for the next five months...
...came Mrs. Farley, back from Italy with her friend Mrs. Salvatore A. Cotillo, large, honey-haired wife of a good Demo-cratic justice of New York's Supreme...