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...only Negro in the U. S. House of Representatives. In this year's Democratic primaries a white man, was, as usual, nominated to oppose him. The white man died. Democratic bosses shrewdly substituted a Negro lawyer, one Arthur W. Mitchell. Up from Mississippi to stump for Demo-crat Mitchell last week went grateful Sylvester Harris...
...with a 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...
...newshawks but also to scores of political wiseacres. For months quidnuncs have been privately intimating that the Roosevelt Administration was headed into a big patronage scandal. Before Secretary Morgenthau reported to the President last week he called to Washington Internal Revenue Collector Abbott, who also happens to be Demo-cratic National Committeeman from Michigan. Last August National Chairman Farley tucked Committeeman Abbott away into the comfortable berth of an Internal Revenue collectorship. Good Mixer Abbott was able to pull many a patronage wire through Boss Farley, to the dismay of Michigan Congressmen. They rejoiced, if they did not assist, when...