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...head this committee he appointed fat, jovial Louis Arthur ("Louie") Johnson, onetime (1932-33) National Commander of the American Legion. Legionary Johnson is also an Elk, a Shriner, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, all of which sodalities consider him a "regular fellow," a potential vote-getter...
...Roosevelt, and President Sidney Hillman of Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Their immediate aim was to keep Postmaster General Farley from naming President Daniel Tobin of the A. F. of L.'s Teamsters' Union, a reactionary craft unionist, to be the New Deal's official Labor vote-getter...
...Republican politics-Hoover recently has become much stronger. In the national convention he will quite possibly have the largest following. Weighed conservatively, his influence in the choice of candidates will be tremendous. Finally, whether speaking for himself, or for some other candidate, he will be a powerful vote-getter. Judging the political situation as a whole, it is more important to follow the old wheel-horse's speeches and actions with great attention than it is to follow blindly Landon, Borah, Knox, or Vandenburg, or any other pastel-shaded "horse" of the Republican party...
Harvard's long-legged Yankee President James Bryant Conant is rapidly proving himself as able a money-getter as his canny predecessor, Abbott Lawrence Lowell. While pocketing with one hand the $2,000,000 gift of Gloveman Lucius Nathan Littauer for a Graduate School of Public Administration (TIME, Dec. 23), he dashed off with the other an appeal for Harvard's Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund. The Fund will be used partly for fat, new scholarships, partly to establish University Professorships. The "roving professors" may work where they choose, breaking down the artificial barriers between fields. Rich Harvardmen were...
...votes to his Democratic opponent's 11,000. However, the Michigan district in question has been consistently Republican for the last 36 years. Though a snowstorm on the morning of election day doubtless reduced the size of last week's vote, Townsendism as a vote-getter made no impressive record considering that, of Republican Main's predecessors, one in 1934 polled 41,000 votes, another in 1932 polled 49,000 votes. Moreover, the Main campaign was endorsed by Michigan's Governor Fitzgerald and Senator Vandenberg, both of whom are opposed to Townsendism. Winner Main himself estimated...