Word: humphrey
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...Maine, New Jersey, Minnesota last week primary campaigns closed, candidates for the 72nd Congress were chosen. In Maine's four districts, only one incumbent was not renominated for the House but he, Wallace Humphrey White, was nominated for the Senate (see below...
Maine's Republicans pleased President Hoover but were rewarded by no open endorsement when they chose Representative Wallace Humphrey White Jr., grandson and onetime secretary of the late Senator William Pierce Frye, to run for the Senate against Democrat Frank H. Haskell. Defeated Republican candidates: onetime Governor Ralph Owen Brewster, Wet Dugald Blair Dewar...
...plantation, Jan. 20, 1854. Start-in-life: a country lawyer. Career: Son of a well-to-do planter, he attended Wake Forest College, was graduated (1873) from Trinity College (now Duke University), commenced the practice of law at New Bern at 21. The same year he married Eliza Humphrey of Goldsboro. Aged 32, he was elected to the House of Representatives, soth Congress, for one unimportant term (1887-89). In 1892 when Populism threatened, he was made head of the Democratic State Executive Committee, held the Weaver vote down to 44,000. His reward came when President Cleveland named...
...Salmon, Gulick, Hurvich, Dunn, g. g., Rhinehart Robinson, Boldt, c.pt. c.pt., Netter Myerson, Clark, pt. pt., Ball Marshall, Henderson, Taylor, 1d. 1d., Murray, Burgess Brinckley, Dunn, Weiner, 2d. 2d., Ellis Faude, Lowenberg, Sweeney, 3d. 3d., Weaver Nido, Hobbs, Davidson, Briggs, c. c., Paige, Ready Cochrane, Keck, 3a. 3a., Moore, Humphrey Johnson, Pope, Briggs, 2a. 2a., Benton, Stewart Glenn, Foshay, Cory, 1a. 1a., Steen Sanders, Foshay, Lay, o.h. o.h., Ready, Waterman Murphy, Kuhl, Keck, i.h. i.h., Searle...
Maine. Famed as a maker of wine from grape juice, Senator Arthur Robinson Gould has been extolling temperance, has decided not to risk himself again at the polls for renomination. Senator Gould's candidate: Congressman Wallace Humphrey White Jr. of Lewiston, co-author of the Dill-White Radio Law, of the Jones-White Shipping Law. Opposing Mr. White in the June primary will be insurgent one-time Governor Ralph Owen Brewster, victor in Maine's waterpower referendum last summer (TIME, Sept...