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...group, of course, does not in the least step on the skirts of the Teachers' Union. The first will be a power in itself, and the Union will cooperate through its alliance to the awesome lobby of the A. F. of L. Together they should be able to ham-string any politician or at least provide the highly necessary and hitherto non-existent deep blue...
...continued hopefully to expose themselves to the lightning. Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg kept mum in Washington, but photographs of the Vandenberg home were beginning to circulate through the Press. In Columbus, Old Guardsman Ogden L. Mills pounded away at "demoralized" New Deal spending. In Manhattan, Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish Jr. hazarded an eight-point landing on the Republican platform. In Sacramento, Governor Frank Merriam announced that he was not opposing friends' efforts on his behalf. In Chicago, Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden opened up campaign headquarters...
...lives quietly with his blonde wife, Cleo, has no children, likes baseball, Buicks, apples, ham & cheese sandwiches, vacations in Manhattan...
...farm life entitled Thanksgiving. In an old-fashioned kitchen with modern linoleum on the floor, a pair of twins are squalling for their dinner in a highchair, a cook is basting the turkey, a scrawny aunt hurries in with a basket of vegetables, a naughty child tosses scraps of ham fat to a kitten...
Stellar performance of the week was put on by the flashy tackle of Harvard's 1910 team, snaggle-toothed Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York. Congressman from Franklin Roosevelt's own Dutchess County, Ham Fish has long yearned to oust his neighbor from the White House. Returning from a nationwide, 50-speech speaking tour, last week he "informally" announced to the Hearst Press that he was an aspirant for the GOPresidential nomination, a scoop which made news in Washington only to hermits. Aglow with political imagination, he also released a non-partisan slate from which, if nominated...