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...national chairman to campaign himself hoarse for the Republican ticket. Senator-elect Bulkley (whose friends already talk loudly of him as a presidential possibility) won urban votes largely by a demand for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. His Wetness pulled his Dry friend George White through to the governorship. A factor in Senator McCulloch's defeat was the opposition of Ne groes, aroused by his support of President Hoover's nomination of John Johnston Parker for the Supreme Court last spring...
...little black toothbrush on his lips, would be the anointed one and make Pennsylvania history. Yet when Allegheny County's (the Mellons') votes were counted, there were 70,000 extra for Pinchot?the backlog of his 50,000 statewide majority?and Theodore Roosevelt's forester was returned to governorship...
...Miss Grosjean had left high school to marry James Terrell of El Dorado, Ark. At 18 she went to work for Lawyer Huey Parham Long. She has been constantly with him ever since. She campaigned with him for the Governorship in 1928, helped him beat impeachment proceedings in 1929, worked to win him his nomination for the U. S. Senate this year. Three years ago she divorced Terrell. During this year's campaign Terrell threatened to sue Governor Long for alienating his wife's affections. Mrs. Rose McConnell Long whom the Governor married in 19103 after...
...make substitutions for the November election. This political trick left Democratic voters cold. Instead they formed an "all-Yankee" ticket by nominating for the Senate Marcus Aurelius Coolidge, onetime mayor of Fitchburg, manufacturer of machinery, banker, no kin to Calvin Coolidge, and Joseph B. Ely of Westfield for the governorship. The spectacle of a Wet Coolidge running against a Dry Butler in November piqued state interest. Nominee Coolidge, delighted, celebrated his victory by taking his family to Newport to see another Irishman lose another race...
Resigned. Roy Archibald Young, one-time governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis: from the governorship of the U. S. Federal Reserve Board (public office, salary $12,000), to replace the late William P. Gould Harding as governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston (private office, salary $30,000). In 1923 Mr. Harding also resigned the governorship of the U. S. board to accept that of the Boston bank...