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Also on the lists are John G. Winant, former governor of New Hampshire and chairman of the Social Security Board, and Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan. Charles Poletti candidate for lieutenant-governor in New York state, and Thurman Arnold, U. S. special prosecutor of monopolies will also lecture...
Whether or not Governor Murphy's handling of the 1937 automobile strike was "a great achievement of a great American," as the President enthusiastically pronounced, is really of less importance to the nation than the conduct of the Senate committee. From first to last this committee has brought ridicule on itself and discredit on the practice of legislative investigation by admitting biased personal opinion to dominate its discussions. Shadow-boxing with Communism and Fascism, charges that went to the ultimate of inanity in associating subversive activity with Shirley Temple--this has been the product of what might have been...
...courage," applauded Mayor LaGuardia, and other New Yorkers agreed. For besides being a good Democrat, William Francis Xavier Geoghan is a good Roman Catholic, a fact important to Governor Lehman last week. Mr. Lehman was persuaded to run this year only on condition that his legal Man Friday, 35-year-old former Supreme Court Justice Charles Poletti, share his responsibilities as Lieutenant Governor. This move angered Roman Catholics and conservatives because it entailed the dropping of Catholic Lieut. Governor M. William Bray in favor of American Laborite Poletti, who is neither. To appease Catholics, the Lehman forces pointed to renominated...
...disagreed with Sinclair's absolute faith in production-for-use, clung then to the profit system, blamed excess savings† rather than excess profits for drying up the economic well. He says he just sympathized with Author Sinclair's objectives. But he agreed to run for Lieutenant Governor on the EPIC ticket...
Green Cheese. If the political potency of pension promises is the result of lunacy, then California is not alone in being moonstruck. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits Pappy") O'Daniel demonstrated the stump value of old age pensions in winning the Democratic nomination (virtual election) for Governor of Texas. Colorado is going gently broke because its promisers tried to give the oldsters too much ($45 a month). Last week Franklin Roosevelt, the smartest politician in the big U. S., recommended that the Social Security Act should be revised to extend its benefits to another...