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...Pittsburg Wagner (5-5) Chicago 8:05 Harris (3-9) at Houston Drabek (10-4) Colorado 8:35 Harris (3-9) at St Louis Sutcliffe (4-3) Philadelphia 10:05 West (2-6) at Los Angeles Gross (7-4) New York 10:05 Jones (7-7) at San Diego Krueger (0-0) Montreal 10:05 Martinez (6-4) at San Francisco Burkett...
...most celebrated operators were Samuel Insull and Ivar Krueger, a.k.a. the Swedish "Match King," both of whose faces appeared on the cover of this very magazine. Insull erected a Rube Goldberg-like structure of 65 companies that operated utilities in 32 states, and by 1932 it had completely collapsed in a $750 million loss for investors. Krueger's ventures came to a similar end, and the Match King snuffed himself...
Sensing the unpopularity of Clinton's proposed tax hikes, Hutchison cast the election as a referendum on the Administration. Krueger obliged by voting against Clinton's budget levels. "Democratic candidates will look at Krueger and see that he ran from Clinton like a scalded dog and still couldn't get away from him," said Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Said Texas' other Senator, Republican Phil Gramm: "If Bill Clinton and Ann Richards can put a pretty face on this devastating defeat, they ought to be morticians instead of politicians...
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, who was a candidate for the seat before joining the Cabinet, offered a different spin. The race might have been much closer, said Cisneros, but "Krueger ran away from his President and his party." He added, "His campaign was almost a blunt rejection of the President. The President could not campaign where he was not invited and not welcome...
Compounding Clinton's troubles, Democrat Bob Krueger, the appointed occupant of Bentsen's Senate seat, lost the Texas Senate race to Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison. The defeat reduced the President's Democratic majority in the Senate...