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...from my car and another behind a rock nearby, both with rifles pointed on us. ... I became resigned to the situation." Aboard a launch on his way to the Chesapeake Bay fishing grounds off Solomons Island, Md., Ohio's husky, 63-year-old Senator Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey was standing beside the small mast when it was struck by lightning. Knocked unconscious for half an hour, the Senator was badly burned on the hands...
...elected to the House from Ohio. He proved able and was placed on the Ways & Means Committee. Last summer his promising career was cut short when the New Deal picked him as a candidate to run in the Democratic primaries for Senator in Ohio. After Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey had handily carried off the honors, the New Deal gratefully found Charles West an $8,000 job as assistant to Governor William I. Myers in the Farm Credit Administration. He still holds that office but last week he was promoted to an unofficial position best described as "Chief Lobbyist...
Next morning the Administration woke to the fact that it had a man-sized fight on its hands. Over to the Senate for anxious conferences hurried that frosty internationalist, Secretary of State Hull. Summoned to the White House on the following morning were four doubtful Senators: Ohio's Donahey, Rhode Island's Gerry, Massachusetts' Walsh, New Mexico's Cutting...
...election, I always go to bed at 9:30 sharp, " said Ohio's small solemn Senator Simeon Davison Fess. And as the onetime chairman of the Republican National Committee slept, he was counted out of the Senate seat he has held since 1925 and Democrat Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey was counted in. "Vic" Donahey is the only man in Ohio's history to have served three straight terms as Governor. Though he beat one of the oldest of the Old Dealers, this tall husky 61-year-old Senator-elect was not an ardent New Dealer. During the campaign...
...Michigan Picard *Vandenburg 428 of 7,693 20, 329 43,102 Montana *Wheeler Bourquin 325 of 713 17,285 8,924 New Jersey Moore *Kean 702 of 3,425 17,119 12,481 New York *Copeland Cluett 4934 of 8947 1,416,972 691,037 Ohio Donahey *Fess 609 of 8,559 41,103 27,827 Pennsylvania Guffey *Reed 4128 of 7956 792,911 803,594 Rhode Island Gerry *Herbert 90 of 232 36,308 37,523 Utah *King Colton 75 of 561 8,932 6,425 Vermont Martin *Austin 89 of 248 11,047 16,293 Virginia *Byrd Page...