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...Attorney General; Utah's Harold M. Stephen, Florida's Frank J. Wideman to be Assistant Attorneys General; Tennessee's John Harcourt Alexander Morgan* and Wisconsin's David E. Lilienthal to be Tennessee Valley Authority directors; Pennsylvania's Carroll Miller, brother-in-law of Demo-cratic Boss "Joe" Guffey, to be an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. ¶A White House caller last week was pretty Margaret Kruis, who was wounded in the head last February when Joe Zangara attempted to assassinate the President-elect at Miami. President Roosevelt recalled that he had visited Miss Kruis...
...pleasure, but I can endure it when I think of Mr. Curtis. . . . Should Mr. Hoover be elected there is no chance now in sight that he will command a working majority in either branch of Congress. . . . The country will obtain a more coherent government from a Demo-cratic Congress led by Mr. Roosevelt than from a Democratic Congress in perpetual deadlock with Mr. Hoover...
...little John Francis Curry. Tammany's boss, summoned his followers to the Wigwam to prepare a Supreme Court slate for the Manhattan-Bronx district. First nominated was Aron Steuer. 33-year-old son of Max Steuer, slick crook-defender and smart Tammany tactician. Then up rose John McNaboe, a Demo-cratic State Senator who had fought tooth & nail against the investigation of Tammany scandals by the legislative committee of which he was a minority member (TIME, April...
...participate at will in either party primary. For years the La Follette dynasty has had strong Democratic support. Only 17,000 Democrats voted in their party primary in 1930, compared to 450,000 who cast their ballots for Al Smith two years before. Last week more than 125,000 Demo-rats walked out on Governor La Follette to nominate their own candidates?Madison's Mayor Albert George Schmedeman for Governor and Francis Ryan Duffy for Senator...
...Senate, Democrats picked Homer T. Bone whose brother Scott used to be Governor of Alaska. Nominee Bone, an ardent "public ownership" man, is viewed with alarm by conservatives who will support Senator Jones. The Jones-Bone fight in November is expected to be close. Here again Demo-crats upped their primary vote in two years from 16,000 to 154,000 whereas Republicans let theirs fall from 297,000 to 170,000. Roland H. Hartley, Republican Governor for the last eight years, was defeated for renomination by easygoing, colorless Lieut. Governor John A. Gellatly...