Word: governors
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...pensions looming ever larger as a factor in Depression politics, observers were not surprised last week to see a deal consummated in politically sophisticated Massachusetts between one of the major parties and a local politician who had rounded up the Townsend Plan vote. "Buyer" was the Republican candidate for Governor, blue-blooded Leverett Saltonstall. "Seller" was William H. McMasters, 64, of Cambridge, who looks something like old Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Published "price": a promise in Mr. Saltonstall's platform to make "an earnest effort to have this bill [Townsend General Welfare Act*] brought before Congress at the earliest...
...product of this trend is Candidate McMasters who polled 48,000 votes in Massachusetts' Republican primary for Governor, although he did not have the official Townsend accolade. Nor was his deal with Candidate Saltonstall the brainchild, as many observers guessed, of shrewd young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. It was engineered by an opportunist even shrewder: William Henry McMasters...
...McMasters managed James Michael Curley's first campaign for Mayor of Boston. Mr. Curley rewarded him with a $5,000 publicity job but later fired him. In 1935, when Mr. Curley was Governor, Mr. McMasters tried to charter a pari-mutuel betting service, to get "for the State" some of the revenue pocketed by the horse-race bookies. Governor Curley's legal department turned him down. The next year Mr. McMasters ran for Governor as candidate of Father Coughlin's Union Party. His reappearance this year as a Townsend Planner had definite nuisance value to both Candidate...
...Having failed to win a coalition backing against Wisconsin's Progressive Governor Philip La Follette (TIME, Oct. 3), Robert K. Henry withdrew as the Democratic nominee to clear the way for Julius P. Heil, the Republican nominee...
Bridge Dedication (Sat. 12:30 p.m. CBS). Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn, Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy jointly dedicate the new Port Huron International Bridge linking Michigan with Ontario...