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...President himself, confined to Washington by the Korean war, did not entirely abandon plans for invading Ohio, and he planned at least to bombard the No. 1 Republican position by radio before Election Day. Taft's opponent, State Auditor Joseph T. ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson, was adding to the fireworks with a far more effective campaign than even his supporters had expected, although he conceded that a Democratic victory would come more from votes against Taft than from votes for Ferguson...
...have been ghastly. But that was far from the case. Shot for shot, Taft fired back. Who had been in charge of U.S. foreign policy for the last 18 years? he demanded. He taunted the Democrats and labor for invading Ohio to dictate to the voters, challenged the unwilling Ferguson to platform debates, visited factories during working hours and got himself photographed with grinning workmen. In the voice that often sounds like a twanging zither, he replied to Averell Harriman in kind: "Until his conversion of a few years ago, Mr. Averell Harriman was one of those most sympathetic...
...greatest blow of the week for Bob Taft was struck by Ohio Democrats. At the Democratic state convention last week, the party's two most important vote-getters-Governor Frank Lausche and Cleveland Mayor Thomas Burke-pointedly refused to endorse Jumping Joe Ferguson for Senator. This was not quite an endorsement of Republican Taft, but it was not calculated to aid the Democratic cause...
When the Mundt-Ferguson-Johnston bill was first brought up in the Senate, it seemed difficult to conceive of a measure that could be more loosely-drawn or more dangerous. But the connivance of Senators McCarran and Kilgore and other eager helpers in both branches of the legislature, converted it into just that. The original security measures requested by the President are in the new bill, but they have been submerged in a flood of provisions that would, according to Mr. Truman's veto message, endanger civil liberties and interfere with the genuine security activities of the Government...
...Which would make her the nation's third woman governor. The first two: Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, governor of Wyoming (1925-27), now director of the U.S. Mint; Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, governor of Texas...