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...Edge resigned from the Senate before Oct. 5. New Jersey voters under the law would pick his successor at a general election on Nov. 5. This would mean a cat-&-dog fight among New Jersey Republicans, who are split. The split might be wide enough to let a Demo crat through. If Senator Edge resigned after Oct. 5, Governor Larson, not the People, would choose his successor, thus preserving a Republican in the U. S. Senate, harmony in New Jersey...
...this [favorable] view of Mr. Hoover in the South and wreck the very substantial foundation for a strong Republican party which has been begun in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. . . ." Adroit, he added: "Unless a very high-class Republican can be found for appointment to any local office, a Demo-crat should be named...
Governors, Senators. Complicating the presidential vote in many a State, are gubernatorial and Congressional elections. Republican Indiana, for example, seemed last week in a fair way to acquire a Demo cratic Governor. So eaten with corruption is the local G. O. P. reputation that Demo crat Frank C. Dailey, running on a "house-cleaning'' platform, seemed well ahead of Republican Harry G. Leslie...
Stumping through his own part of the continent-Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico-Nominee Robinson last week assaulted Intolerance, leading issue in that section. He flayed "a lot of women with short skirts and long necks" for the Whispering Campaign. He cried: "Neither the Republican nor the Demo cratic platform declares in favor of Prohibition." He said: "Senator Curtis and I are dry - nobody knows how dry we are!" Also, he mixed with Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette, in an argument of the kind that is thoroughly enjoyed in a country of long adjectives...
Married. Miss Rosamond Pinchot, 23, actress (The Miracle; now with the Reinhardt Co.), niece of onetime Governor of Pennsylvania Gifford Pinchot; to William Gaston, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Colonel William Alexander Gaston, potent Boston lawyer, onetime (1902) Demo- cratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts; at West Chester...