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...held it throughout. But that lead was not the 50,000-to-100,000 triumph which Chairman Hamilton had predicted. When all but three of the State's 633 precincts had reported, the biggest GOP winner was Secretary of State Lewis O. Barrows, leading Democrat Dubord for the Governorship by 38,000 votes. Republican Congressional candidates were in the clear by 17,000 to 20,000 votes. But in Maine's prime race, Republican Senator White had beaten Democratic Governor Brann by a bare 4,000 plurality...
...Federal income tax. But beyond any such fantastic reforms, beyond his abuse of Richard B. Russell Jr. and the New Deal, Candidate Talmadge stressed in his speeches, his broadsides and his weekly sheet The Statesman ("Editor: The People; Associate Editor: Eugene Talmadge") the impressive and incontrovertible fact of his Governorship: TALMADGE KEPT HIS PROMISES...
Next day the late Governor whose platform was "The Capitalistic system has failed and immediate steps must be taken to abolish it," was saluted thus by President Roosevelt: "The nation has lost a personality of singular force and courage. . . . Year by year since he assumed the Governorship of a great commonwealth he had become a more massive figure in our national life...
...There are two Alf M. Landons. There is the Governor Landon of Kansas. That is the man I know. Then there is the Candidate Landon. . . . Candidate Landon is running for the Presidency on an anti-New Deal platform, but Governor Landon ran for a second term for the Governorship of Kansas on a 100% New Deal platform...
Able Frank Murphy likes his job in the Philippines, announced before departing for the U. S. two months ago that he hoped and expected to return. But his friends know that he has had his eye on Michigan's Governorship for a long time, that at 43 his political ambitions are virtually boundless. Having stayed long enough to achieve a notable reputation for tact and efficiency, the eleventh and last Governor General of the Philippines may have concluded that the post might prove for him the same kind of stepping stone which it was for the eighth. Henry Lewis...