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Among th 134 votes which favored other candidates were ten cast for Al Smith, six for ex-Governor Winant of New Hampshire, three for both Ogden Mills and Governor Hoffman, of Lindbergh kidnapping fame...
Without doubt the most honest, sincere and unbiased criticism of the New Deal heard in this country came from the lips of ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith speaking before the Liberty League in New York Saturday night. With no trace of personal bitterness or ravings, but with fairness and in plain terms, did the nation's leading "conservative Democrat" call the administration to task for its neglected party pledges and its wanderings from the paths of constitutionality. An especial tribute to Mr. Smith's sincerity of purpose is the fact that the Liberty League, at first evidently affected...
...that the election, to an unusual degree in this election-ridden State, was an ever-present subject in the minds of our citizenship generally and particularly in the Democratic portion. . . . There came into Kentucky Democratic Senators Barkley and Logan, the scholarly orator. ex-Governor and ex-Senator Stanley, Mrs. Ross, a woman ex-Governor from the West, several of Kentucky's Democratic Congressional delegation and others, who. with our local orators, upon every slump proclaimed the glory of the President and how a vote against the Democratic gubernatorial nominee was a vote to repudiate the President. Naturally, this...
...years ago Michigan's Governor William A, Comstock started the epidemic of bank holidays by closing the banks in his State. Last week, having lost both the Democratic renomination and a large inherited fortune, ex-Governor Comstock went into bankruptcy. Among liabilities of over $1,000,000 were $150,000 in assessments on stocks of reopened banks. Assets: $6.376.66. In search of "some good Milwaukee beer." Wisconsin's Representative Raymond J. Cannon and a U. S. marshal named McKenna bargained with a Washington taxi driver to take them to suburban Maryland Club Gardens and back for $2.50. Thirsty...
...Capitalists are insane in their view toward the trade unions," declared Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the ex-governor of Pennsylvania and amateur strike-leader, in an address before the Liberal Club at Phillips Brooks House last night...