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...Iowa case, Senator Herring was for Senator Gillette's renomination against Mr. Wearin. In Sioux City, where there were 4,000 WPA workers, Mr. Wearin got only about 300 votes...
...this year: plumping for Otha D. Wearin's nomination for the Senate in Iowa, and whitewashing the WPA as a whole in Kentucky. Mr. Hopkins in Washington is much further removed politically from State Administrator Keller in Iowa and State Administrator Goodman in Kentucky than are Senators Herring of Iowa and Barkley of Kentucky, respectively...
Senator Gillette, backed by the State machine of his colleague Senator Clyde Herring and Governor Nelson G. Kraschel, backed also by Catholics, the A.F of L. and reputedly by Boss Jim Farley, stormed up & down the State denouncing "this gang of political termites . . . boring from within . . . planning on taking over, if possible, the control of the Democratic party organization in 1940." Along with' Harry Hopkins he damned Tommy Corcoran, Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas, Homer Martin of the C.I.O. and Communist Earl Browder as other non-lowans who had unrighteously butted in by endorsing Mr. Wearin. He referred...
Otha Wearin, meantime, was playing up the Hopkins endorsement for all it was worth. It made him, he insisted, manifestly the anointed choice of the White House. Scornfully he exposed an effort by Senator Herring to get him to sign a post-primary peace agreement with Senator Gillette. This, he said, was an insidious effort by the Senators to suggest that...
...Arts and Sciences, Henry W. Holmes, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, George F. Plimpton, Associate Dean of the College, George H. Chase, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions; Professor Alvin H. Hansen, E. Pendleton Herring, Arthur N. Holcombe, Edward S. Mason, Aldrich Durant, Business Manager, Henry R. Shepley, architect and Frank G. Thomson, donor of several recent scholarships