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Died. George Henry Dickinson, 75, famed oldtime newsman, once managing editor of the New York Telegram, chief of the New York Journal's field bureau during the Spanish-American War; penniless, in Manhattan. For years his onetime reporters helped support...
Lester Jesse ('"Dick") Dickinson, 62, is a big, friendly, white-thatched Iowa lawyer who went to the House in 1919, became leader of that body's first, historic Farm Bloc. In 1931 Representative Dickinson moved up to the Senate, where he distinguished himself by coming out early & often against the New Deal. A loud, earnest orator who keynoted at the 1932 Republican national convention, the Senator from Iowa demands "sane, honest industrial and agricultural programs" and a return "to the ideas of our New England forefathers." Senator Dickinson does not drink, smoke, take part in sports or society...
Popular with his rural constituents until he began maligning AAA, Senator Dickinson faces a hard fight for re-election this year. But that prospect has lately been assuaged by the buzzing in his large, well-shaped head of some such exciting thought as the following: "If Warren Harding could get the Republican Presidential nomination in 1920, why can't I get it in 1936?" Like Harding, "Dick" Dickinson, with his big frame, Roman features and shock of silver-white hair, makes a handsome, impressive figure. Like Harding, he would personify a return to normalcy after a hectic Democratic regime...
Last week Smith Wildman Brookhart informed Iowa voters that he was prepared to move back into the Senate. Already there are four other Republican candidates out for the seat now held by Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson. Aware that this split in votes would make things much easier for him in the June primaries. Candidate Brookhart put forward a platform calculated to outdo the AAA: export dumping, price-fixing on crops...
Other men who will attend will be John Dickinson, Assistant Attorney General; Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who will be at the "Banking" table; Arthur Krock, head of the New York Times Washington Office...