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...impressions on how the Northwest felt about things in general and the New Deal in particular. But even if Franklin Roosevelt did not love campaigning so much that he does it from sheer force of habit, his visit to his grandchildren would inevitably have been the week's major U. S. political news...
American Legion's total income-about half from annual dues of $1 apiece from its 1,000,000 members-was nearly $2,000,000 for the year ending July 31. Of its expenses a major administrative item is $22,000 a year to the National Commander ($10,000 salary, $12,000 expenses). At least four Legion Commanders have used the post as a springboard to major-league political jobs. Hanford MacNider (1921) and Alvin Owsley (1922) became U. S. Ministers. Paul V. McNutt (1928) became Governor of Indiana, is now High Commissioner to the Philippines. Louis Arthur Johnson...
Events like these last week by no means astounded New Jersey whose politics has a strong savor of its own. They were in fact the normal accompaniment of a primary election in which the major issue was to choose gubernatorial candidates to succeed Republican Governor Harold Giles Hoffman whose political star has been waning. In the Democratic primary Arthur Harry Moore, up for a third term as Governor after time out to be elected to the U. S. Senate (1935-41), was unopposed. A party split made the Republican race more exciting. Backed by Governor Hoffman's once powerful...
Apart from Japan's major move last week in attempting to disorganize all resistance to her armies by destroying the capital of China (see above) chief events of the war were...
...that major Harvard spirit is just what this year's cheer leaders are going to try to instill into this year's stands. Whether cheering makes the team or the team makes the cheering, as in the 1936 Princeton game, is beside the point. The point is simply that last year the cheer leaders were frankly "no good." Good yell leaders form the first requisite for good cheering...