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After he announced his choice, newsmen jammed his small Senate office. Joe Ball made one point clear: he spoke for himself alone, and not for his political mentor, Minnesota's ex-Governor Harold Stassen, now a lieutenant commander in the South Pacific. Then he said, about the White House visit...
Clyde Hoey is lukewarm to the New Deal, but Southern-hot for internationalism. An ex-Governor of North Carolina, Hoey is a brother-in-law of O. Max Gardner, another ex-Governor, now a lawyer-lobbyist, whose political machine is known as the "Gardner Dynasty." Hoey and the Gardner Dynasty had an easy time beating out still another ex-Governor, the famed "Cam" Morrison, 74, who held the Senate seat before Bob Reynolds beat him in 1932 by telling North Carolinians in horror that "Cam" actually ate caviar, "fish aigs that come from Red Rooshia...
Died. Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith, 65, wife of the Empire State's brown-derbied ex-Governor and Democratic Presidential nominee (1928); of virus pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Allied Control Commission under British Lieut. General Mason-Macfarlane. In particular, an Italian-American from New York had brought to bear a great deal of political savvy, a great ability to personify democracy to Italians who had never seen it in action. This paragon is Lieut. Colonel Charles Poletti, ex-Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New York, Regional Commissioner for Naples, Salerno, Benevento and Avellino...
Charles Edison (see cut), ex-Governor of New Jersey, son of the late, great Thomas Alva Edison, was elected national chairman by United China Relief. As head of the fund which in 1943 sent $8,683,870 to war-torn China, onetime Secretary of the Navy Edison succeeds the late Manhattan Lawyer Frederick Hill (Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine &) Wood. Said Edison: "The Chinese people have purchased time for all their allies with space of their country and blood of their people...