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Alabama. With Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin who mortally fears and hates the Roman Pope, legally barred from the Democratic primary because he bolted the national ticket in 1928, Demo- crats last week nominated for the Senate John H. Bankhead, Jasper attorney, son of the late Senator John Hollis Bankhead, uncle of voluptuous, London-petted Actress Tallulah Bankhead. The defeated candidate: Frederick Ingate Thompson, Mobile publisher. Judge Benjamin Meek Miller, anti-Klan, won the regular Democratic nomination for Governor. Senator Heflin, who plans to run as an independent Senatorial candidate in November, urged his friends to keep away from...
...Public Lands, Territories, Indian Affairs, Coinage, Weights & Measures. He calls himself a "Free Democrat." but is seldom not ''regular." He is friendly with Republican leaders like Speaker Longworth, Congressmen Tilson and Snell, whom he humorously denounces. He is one of the last of the old-school Demo-cratic "statesmen." He voted for: Restrictive Immigration (1923), the Soldier Bonus (1924), Farm Relief (1927. 1928), the Farm Board (1929), the Jones ("Five & Ten") Act (1929). He voted against: the Tariff (1930), Tax Reduction (1924, 1926, 1928, 1929), the Navy's 15-cruiser bill (1929), Reapportionment (1929). His vote...
...Manhattan last week met 300 garment manufacturers to discuss stabilizing their industry. No. 1 speaker: Demo-cratic Senator Royal Samuel Copeland of New York. Said...
...inhabitants. This year, thanks to oil and energy, it was found to be a full-fledged city of 10,453, a population increase of 959% in a decade. The disclosure of Pampa's spurty growth came just 24 hours after Texas' Congressman John Nance Garner, Demo cratic Leader of the House, had made a proposal which, if ever executed, would be far more subversive of U. S. political divisions than any readjustment of House representation consequent to the Census. Leader Garner declared that the time had come to carve five States out of Texas. Purpose: "To transfer...
...went a $250,000 pledge by the power company to the Kentucky State Park Commission to develop the property about Cumberland Falls into a park. Kentucky's only Republican high official. Governor Flem D. Sampson, had engineered the Cumberland Falls deal, had signed the contract. Kentucky's Demo-cratic Attorney-General James William Cammack cried tritely: "What a crime . . . that the rights of Kentucky might be bartered away for a mess of pottage...