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First of the defeated candidates to congratulate Nominee Roosevelt was, of course, Speaker Garner who wired: "Your nomination means your election." Mr. Traylor told the Press the Roosevelt nomination made him "personally very happy." Most startling felicitation came from insurgent Republican Senator Hiram Johnson of California, no friend to President Hoover. He was "thrilled" by the Roosevelt plane ride, admired the Roosevelt acceptance speech, but did not go so far as to say he would support the Roosevelt candidacy. Neither did Alfred Emanuel Smith, who had "no comment" to make...
...probability Dr. Joseph Irwin France, sole Hoover opponent for the Presidency, would not be allowed inside the Stadium. But there would be a struggle worth watching, thought observers, when the Prohibition section of the platform came to the floor. Nicholas Murray Butler and tall, white- maned Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut had promised to pit their minority Repeal plank against the Administration's Revision proposal, over which the Resolutions Committee had been toiling for 24 hours...
...merged production facilities, summoned young David O. Selznick from Paramount to take charge. Mr. Selznick was last week selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to head the 1932 committee on awards for achievements in motion pictures. Later RKO directors elected Mr. Aylesworth president in place of Hiram Brown. RKO is better off than it was a year ago. So is Universal, run by old Carl Laemmle's smart son "Junior," who started the monster cycle. Most extraordinary personnel changes were in Fox, where Edward Richmond Tinker, long with Chase National Bank, became president to succeed Harley...
...oldsters as the sage of the Pacific Coast. Long active in politics, he was most conspicuous as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee in the Hughes campaign for President. Hughes's loss of California to Wilson was popularly ascribed to his failure to handshake California's Governor Hiram Warren Johnson, then Republican candidate for U. S. Senator. Chairman Rowell said he was unable to effect the meeting, charged interference by Nicholas Murray Butler...
...strident Californian voice of Senator Hiram Johnson rolled out imperiously across the well-filled Senate chamber. In his hand he held a speech, too important to be delivered from memory. His white crest quivered with indignation and behind his spectacles his blue eyes gleamed resentfully. He was about to vent the full measure of his political bitterness, the full force of his distrust as as isolationist, and the full brilliance of disgruntled hindsight, upon the gentlemen who had conducted the country's international finance for the past decade. His speech summarized his conclusions on the Finance Committee...