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Proved by photographs was the tapping of Mrs. McCormick's telephone line near her farm at Byron, Ill. Undisputed was the fact that her confidential records had been searched and pilfered. Last month the Senate Committee held hearings at Chicago at which Mrs. McCormick and her political counsel, Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom of Illinois, offered to submit what they claimed was proof that Committee agents had a hand in these melodramatic antics. Chairman Nye, after questioning his agents privately and convincing himself of their probity, categorically denied Mrs. McCormick's "slanderous insinuations," refused to hear her evidence...
...frame" (up)=to fake; to prearrange surreptitiously. Senator Nye's insinuation apparently was that Nominee McCormick herself had her wires tapped, her office rifled, then blamed the Committee...
...politics. When Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson (onetime Countess Gizycka) became editrix of William Randolph Hearst's Washington Herald last summer, she attracted notice with a signed front-page declaration to the effect that the only political assistance Mrs. Longworth could render Senate Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois was posing for photographs. It appeared that the Countess was out to explode the "Princess" legend, for business or other reasons. Last week Editor Patterson took another signed front-page thrust at Theodore Roosevelt's daughter...
...Some weeks ago I wrote that Alice Longworth had no real gifts to bring to Ruth Hanna McCormick's campaign. Ruth McCormick is Alice Longworth's close friend...
...Senator Borah, another close friend of Alice Longworth, has said that if Ruth McCormick is elected he will vote to unseat her because of her excessive campaign expenditures. Mrs. Longworth may now present her real gifts. She may use her political influence, of which the country has for so long heard so much. She may soften this decision of the frugal gentleman from Idaho...