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...Navy commissioned its newest carrier this week-Fighting Lady, all wood, 103 feet long. She will patrol the lower plaza in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center as an attention-getter for the Seventh War Loan drive...
...Ohio, Democrats last week nominated the Mayor of Cleveland, and Republicans the Mayor of Cincinnati, to succeed John Bricker as Governor. Cleveland's able Frank Lausche (rhymes with howshay), his party's hottest vote getter in a decade (TIME, Nov. 15), got 30,000 more votes than his five opponents combined. Democrats jubilantly figured he might not only win the Governorship but also lure Republican Ohio into the Term IV column in November...
Best guess was that Homer Bone would not resign from the Senate until after the November election, thus preventing Republican Governor Arthur Langlie from appointing an interim G.O.P. Senator. But with the hottest Democratic vote getter out, Washington GOPsters were hopeful. Best Republican bet: Eric Johnston, 47, of Spokane, the forceful president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
Democratic Chairman Robert E. Hannegan explained why he expects a Democratic victory in 1944: "Because the world requires it and destiny wills it." Vote-getter Hannegan, who is nevertheless no man to leave it all to destiny, made this prediction in Maine, the tenth state he has visited in nine bustling weeks as party chairman...
...Republican confusion came at a moment of surpassing Democratic unity behind the best vote getter they have seen in years: Cleveland's Mayor Frank John Lausche (rhymes with How Shay), 48, the only major Democrat above the Mason-Dixon line to win in the nationwide Republican sweep last fall (TIME, Nov. 15, 1943). Lausche is liked both by labor and by old-line conservatives. Exuberant Democrats even believe he may carry Ohio for Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, if Republicans are off fighting among themselves...