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...President goes a curious crowd congregates; wherever a politician speaks a good campaign manager can drum up an enthusiastic audience. But the newshawks who followed Franklin Roosevelt across the country had never seen such crowds, had never heard such cheers as greeted him. Through Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois???at every city and hamlet there were people by the railroad tracks. Uninvited thousands drove hundreds of miles across the blistering plains to the places where he was to speak. At night by the lights of desolate country railroad stations, around bonfires in dusty fields beside the tracks, other thousands...
...months ago Senator George William Norris of Nebraska introduced a resolution for a senatorial investigation of 1930 campaign expenditures. Such an investigation four years ago resulted in excluding from the Senate Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois??? and William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania. Illinois and Pennsylvania were again having bitter senatorial contests which Senator Norris wanted to keep under sharp observation. The Norris resolution went to the Committee on Privileges & Elections, chairmanned by California's Senator Samuel Morgan ("Solemn Sam") Shortridge. There the resolution languished...
Such opposition as there was, was carried on almost single-handedly by Congressman Henrv T. Rainey of Illinois???fiery, white-haired, 65, like the President an Amherst man ('83), unlike the President, a Democrat. Since 1903 he has served continuously in the House, with only a recess of two years given him by his constituents at the time of the Harding landslide. Many Democrats, including such prominent members as Garner, ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, stood by the bill. But Rainey never flagged in opposition. Every controversial point he fought...
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