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...before he ran for President in 1920 with Franklin Roosevelt as second fiddle on the ticket. A. Victor ("Vic") Donahey was Governor from 1923 to 1929. George White has been Governor since 1931. Last week these three potent Democrats were at odds over who should oppose standpat Republican Simeon Fess for his Senate seat. Messrs. Donahey and White were both candidates for the Democratic nomination, Governor White campaigning as champion of the New Deal, "Vic" Donahey, lukewarm on New Deal policies, rounding up votes among his old friends, Ohio's farmers. After the campaign was under...
...Washington, where Ohio's Senators Fess and Bulkley called at RFC headquarters to put in a good word for a state industry, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones seemed sympathetic. Willys-Overland had applied for its loan a month before, not directly, but through a mortgage association. Thus the application did not technically come under the Direct Loans to Industry bill which President Roosevelt signed last week and which limits to $500,000 the amount of money RFC may loan to one company...
...following residents of Ohio and readers of TIME would greatly appreciate your publishing a review of the Congressional career of Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio...
...record of Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio is as follows: Born: On a farm in Allen County, Ohio, Dec. 11, 1861. Start-in-life: Country school teacher. Career: Son of impoverished log cabin dwellers, he was four when his father died. At twelve he was sent to live with an elder sister, did farm work summers, got a little schooling winters. Aged 19, he passed an examination, received a license to teach. With his earnings he sent himself to Ohio Northern University at Ada. On the day in 1889 that Ohio Northern graduated him, aged 27, that Methodist stronghold...
With Calvin Coolidge. whom he admired tremendously and whose frequent White House guest he was, he indulged in long intimate hours of what Senator Pat Harrison called "political mumblety-peg." Senator Fess was bitterly disappointed when President Coolidge refused to run for a third term, was more responsible than anyone else for keeping alive the "Draft Coolidge" movement. Having declared that "The Republican Party cannot accept an internationalist as its standard bearer," Senator Fess was defeated in 1928 as an anti-Hoover delegate to the Republican national convention, of which he had been designated keynoter. But at Kansas City...