Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small that it was virtually ignored by the public, Chairman Hamilton's remark was characteristically optimistic. The Illinois primary was chiefly significant to Illinois, and since 1933 the time-honored complexities of Illinois politics have had, as their central theme, the struggle for State control between Democratic Governor Henry Horner and Chicago's Democratic Kelly-Nash machine. Last week victories of his two candidates for Senator and county judge made it look as though Governor Horner had finally...
Lucas v. Igoe. Illinois' downstate Senator William Dieterich got himself elected on the same ticket as Chicago's Henry Horner in 1932, has since distinguished himself in Illinois by attempting unsuccessfully to swing the downstate vote away from his former running mate when Governor Horner ran for re-election in 1936. In Washington he has voted consistently for the New Deal, but last winter any hope Franklin Roosevelt might have entertained to reward Mr. Dieterich's loyalty was thwarted. Governor Horner and Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly paid separate visits to the White House, each...
...considerations made it advisable to drop Judge Jarecki from the ticket, run a rival Pole, a circuit court judge named John Prystalski, for his office. Judge Jarecki's reply to this slight was a prompt announcement that he would run anyway, independently if necessary. It was not necessary. Governor Homer's faction, which has long been looking for some way to shake its rival's Cook County dominance, immediately saw in Judge Jarecki the answer to its prayer...
Last week, when the Kelly-Nash machine was upset by Governor Henry Homer in the Illinois primaries (sec p. 13), Editor Harris might have felt some justifiable pride in having helped. But he was too full of worries. There was not enough money in The Beacon's till to pay for printing the first anniversary issue, now a fortnight overdue. Not ready to admit he was licked. Sydney Harris last week broadcast a final appeal for help...
Franklin Roosevelt and Senator Burton K. Wheeler are on record as believing that most intermediate holding companies should be eliminated; Governor George Earle of Pennsylvania likes to assert that the long fingers of J. P. Morgan reach into too many crannies for the public good; SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas argues that major financing programs should always be subject to competitive bidding. Last week all three of these themes ran through the complicated story of a battle for control of rich Chesapeake & Ohio Railway...