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...notorious dastard and Spanish Political Grafter Juan March, popularly supposed to get his way in any part of Spain with 1,000 peseta notes, bolted like a rabbit for France until things should quiet down. A few weeks ago brazen Juan March was offering publicly to highest bidders the Governorship of a Spanish province and all its seats in the Cortes, which he claimed to control. Last week Dastard March and the blameless Duquesa de Fernán Núñez were about equally scared. The Duchess stripped off her great rope of pearls, left it with Spanish frontier...
...consistent advocate of a "Navy second to none." Died. Albert Cabell Ritchie, 59, four-time (1920-35) Governor of Maryland, pioneer advocate of Prohibition repeal; of a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore. In 1932, he lost the Presidential nomination to Franklin D. Roosevelt; in 1934, he lost the Governorship to Harry Whinna Nice, whom he had defeated in 1919; in 1935, he lost his faith in the New Deal, bitterly attacked...
Stepping into the Louisiana Governorship left vacant last week by the death of Oscar Kelly Allen (TIME, Feb. 3), James A. Noe chose as one of his first official acts the appointment of Mrs. Huey Pierce Long to the U. S. Senate vacancy left by the death of her husband. He also promised that the Democratic State Central Committee would promptly bequeath her the nomination which Governor Allen had just won to serve out the remaining year of the late "Kingnsh's" term. Said Governor Noe: "This is the proudest moment of my life." Said Senator John H. Overton...
Election to a state senatorship from his native Vermont in 1929 spelled the doom of in 1935 of both DEmocratic and Republican machines in the state. The lieutenant governorship was his in 1931. He shortly broke with his friend, Ruby Laffoon, governor an dKentucky Coon creator. In Governor Laffoon's absence he pushed through a law requiring the selection of a public national candidate by primary, not party convention. By fortuitous and planned maneuvering, he was rollered to the governorship in November. He was not an old-line Democratic choice, but he was a Democrat and he endorsed President Roosevelt...
...courts is too obvious a truth to emphasize. But, after all, what influence can such a trivial consideration have upon the Napoleonic mind of Mr. Curley? It is almost comic to hope that the integrity of the judiciary will mean anything to the man who has dragged the governorship of Massachusetts down to a level where almost no one has confidence in, or respect...