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With her mother, a stenographer and a clerk, grey-haired, bustling Interim Senator Gladys Pyle (Rep.) drove all the way from South Dakota to Washington "because," she said, "I wouldn't feel like a Senator unless I did." First woman to serve in the South Dakota Legislature, Senator Pyle was a candidate for Governor two years ago. As soon as she arrived in Washington, she personally screwed her nameplate on the door of her temporary office; spoke at a luncheon of the Republican National Committee; had a look at the Capitol; hurried down to the Interior Department to discuss...
...apple-headed little gnome from Delaware, whom name-calling Harold Ickes calls "Proxy Dan, the Du Pont man"- ex-Senator Daniel Oren Hastings, than whom no man in Congress has a more reactionary record. As a sop to "liberals" they gave the one other executive vacancy to South Dakota's Harvey Jewett...
...concrete measure of Republicans' success was that they swept New England solidly. Very nearly capturing the New York Governorship, they swept New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, South Dakota, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon. They nearly won in Indiana, won all high State offices but the Governorship in Nebraska, gained the Governorship and barely missed another Senator in Iowa. All those victories were against Democrats. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, ruled by Farmer-Labor and Progressives who were more or less allies of the New Deal, they won two more Governorships, one Senatorship...
Other New Republicans: South Dakota's Harland J. Bushfield, Wyoming's Nels H. Smith, Minnesota's Harold Stassen, Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall. Iowa's George A. Wilson, Idaho's C. A. Bottolfsen. New Democrats: Maryland's Herbert R. O'Conor, California's Culbert Olson, North Dakota's John Moses...
...Oregon rejected a "citizens' retirement annuity plan" which would have paid up to $100 a month, but instructed its Legislature to memorialize Congress on behalf of the Townsend Plan. Nebraskans refused to license slot machines to provide more pension revenue. Elsewhere the pension cause was successful. North Dakota approved pensions of $40 a month. Colorado rejected an amendment repealing its present $45-a-month pensions which its opponents declared were bankrupting the State. Missourians thought it was all right to lower the age minimum for pensioners from...