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Senator Simeon Davison Fess, National Republican Chairman: "No uniform pattern ... a crazy-quilt...
...charge of the 72nd Congressional election?all 435 Representatives and 35 of the 96 Senators** ? were no such historic phrasemakers as Jim Good. Chief of the Republican side was Ohio's professorial little Senator Simeon Davison Fess, chairman (faute de mieux) of the Republican National Committee. Chief of the Democratic side was Chairman John Jacob Raskob of the Democratic National Committee, very much offstage because of his Catholicism, Wetness and political naivete. While Chairman Fess went about making more or less perfunctory speeches, the actual work was done for the G. O. P. by plump, glossy-haired Robert Hendry...
Ohio. A particularly. hard blow to President Hoover, the Republican National Committee and the Anti-Saloon League of America was the defeat of Dry Republican Senator (by appointment) Roscoe Conkling McCulloch by Wet Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley. Senator McCulloch's fuss-budgety little colleague, Senator Simeon Davison Fess dropped his duties as G. O. P. national chairman to campaign himself hoarse for the Republican ticket. Senator-elect Bulkley (whose friends already talk loudly of him as a presidential possibility) won urban votes largely by a demand for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. His Wetness pulled his Dry friend George...
...country is Republican. The Republican Party will continue its control of Congress-Chairman Simeon Davison Fess of the Republican National Committee...
Ohio. So certain seemed the defeat of Dry Republican Senator McCulloch by Wet Democratic Nominee Bulkley that Chairman Fess suddenly dropped his national duties to go home and stump frantically for his colleague...