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Illinois Democrats put aside local squabbles and asked their showiest vote-getter to run for governor. Cook County's third-term Attorney Thomas James ("Honest Tom") Courtney, 49, whose silver hair and slanted smile are not lost on feminine voters, flatly demanded the support of Colonel Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News and Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. Getting it, he graciously accepted the draft. If he wins the Democratic primary, he will fight it out next November with the G.O.P.'s handsome, grey Governor Dwight Green, able, amiable yes-man of Colonel Robert R. McCormick...
...already won the D.S.M. When Secretary Frank Knox conferred it on him, the official citation said: "By his capable performance of duty on both coasts of the United States, he laid the groundwork for amphibious training of practically all American units. . . . His proficient leadership and tireless energy in the development of high combat efficiency among the forces under his supervision were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service...
...Democrat. Was there any question about John Rankin being a true Democrat? "I want to clear that up. . . . I voted the Democratic ticket in 1904 when President Roosevelt voted the Republican ticket.* I voted the Democratic ticket when Mr. Knox was running on the Republican ticket. I voted the Democratic ticket when the Taft administration was going down to defeat with Secretary Stimson as a Republican in the Cabinet. I voted the Democratic ticket when Mr. Ickes was a Bull Mooser. I voted the Democratic ticket when Harry Hopkins was a Socialist.* I do not want any fly-by-night...
...Senate, two days before, Ohio's Republican Robert Taft had charged that Secretaries Stimson and Knox, in arguing for the federal ballot, had shown that they "are today running for a fourth term" because they regard themselves as indispensable to the conduct of the war. But after the Roosevelt message, balding, humorless Bob Taft, ordinarily dry and legal in manner, leaped up with red face and flailing arms. He called the President's message a "direct insult" to Congress, and charged that the President is planning to line up soldiers for the Fourth Term "as the WPA workers...
...recent weeks Oxie has had his ungrammatical go at a variety of subjects, from "stratosphere strategy" to Presidential press conferences, with a fine disregard for the official position of the Daily News's publisher, Navy Secretary W. Franklin Knox...