Word: huxman
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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Your article in issue of Nov. 16 with reference to Walter A. Huxman, Governor-elect of Kansas, is not only inaccurate but grossly unfair...
Your description of Mr. Huxman as a "second-string politician" is not in accord with what we regard the true meaning of that term in this State. "Second-string" is defined by most dictionaries as something inferior or second rate, and the word "politician" is not exactly complimentary. Mr. Huxman is not a "second-string politician"-as a matter of fact he is not a "politician...
...true that Harry Woodring and Guy Helvering urged Mr. Huxman to make the race for Governor of Kansas but they did so with thousands of other citizens of this State who had come to recognize the character, honesty and outstanding ability of Mr. Huxman...
...Kansas last week there were several disappointed office seekers: No. 1, Alfred M. Landon; No. 2. Will G. West. Governor Landon's onetime private secretary, whom all political observers in State expected to win. No. 3, according report circulating last week in Kansas, was Walter A. Huxman, Democrat, who to every one's surprise beat out Will G. West for Governor. The tale told in Kansas: no prominent Democrat wanted the thankless job of running against Will West. Finally Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy Helvering, Kansans both, appealed to Huxman, a second...
...campaign manager and private secretary, Will G. West, candidate for Governor and rated one of the State's smartest politicians, would run well ahead of him on the Republican ticket. But when Franklin Roosevelt swept even Alf Landon's home State, he carried a Democrat, Walter A. Huxman, along to fill Alf Landon's chair on Jan. 1. Farm-born near Pretty Prairie, outspoken, aggressive Governor-elect Huxman served on Kansas' State Tax Commission under onetime Governor Harry H. Woodring. Acting Secretary of War Woodring and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy T. Helvering, who still boss...