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Boss Ed Crump of toddy-loving Memphis has fought prohibition since 1933, when he helped swing Tennessee's ratification of the 21st Amendment by a bare 6,808 votes. Since then he has deposed two Dry Governors (McAlister, Browning) who would not go along with him for State repeal. Last week his latest protege, Governor Prentice Cooper, vetoed the Assembly's repealer. This deed may alter Mr. Cooper's political future, but it did not alter the legislators' minds. Crying, "We've got the liquor now: let's regulate and tax it!" they overrode...
Illinois' No. 1 Democrat, forceful Governor Henry Horner, has been four months sunning his bald head and nursing his ailing heart in Miami, where his entourage last week denied persistent reports that his health might prevent his return to duty. Henry Horner is Illinois' No. 1 Democrat by virtue of the drubbing he gave his erstwhile sponsors, Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and Democratic National Committeeman Patrick A. Nash, when those potent bosses tried to ditch him two years ago. Last week, with Ed Kelly's position as No. 2 Democrat and his chances...
President of the Institute is Nathaniel Saltonstall, first cousin of Massachusetts' new Governor. Director is a young (27), bespectacled Harvardman ('33) who studied Fine Arts in college because he thought it was a snap course, wrote the music for a Hasty Pudding show, still likes playing tennis and skiing as much as working with pictures: James Sachs Plaut (rhymes with flout), who was assistant curator of paintings at the Fine Arts Museum before the Institute hired him last year. More young Bostonians went to his show last week than the Museum had seen for years...
...consuming personal ambition had been thwarted. In New York he had campaigned several times in vain to be elected mayor or governor; his papers could make or break small officials, but they never got Hearst farther than two unspectacular terms in the House. In 1922 Al Smith refused to run on the State Democratic ticket with him and at last Hearst knew he would never be President. And so after 27 years in the East he moved back to California and began to surround himself with a grandeur that no other private citizen has ever matched in U. S. history...
...crusty Republican Governor Nathan Miller put a major hurdle in the way by creating a State Transit Commission with sole unification powers. It bickered with the city and nothing resulted...