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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of the 72nd Congressional election?all 435 Representatives and 35 of the 96 Senators** ? were no such historic phrasemakers as Jim Good. Chief of the Republican side was Ohio's professorial little Senator Simeon Davison Fess, chairman (faute de mieux) of the Republican National Committee. Chief of the Democratic side was Chairman John Jacob Raskob of the Democratic National Committee, very much offstage because of his Catholicism, Wetness and political naivete. While Chairman Fess went about making more or less perfunctory speeches, the actual work was done for the G. O. P. by plump, glossy-haired Robert Hendry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Campaign Captains | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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