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Bitter Victory. In the January Democratic primary, Earl's man ran first in a field of nine (TIME, Jan. 28). But it was a bitter victory. Spaht got 158,839 votes, only about one-third of the total. The second man, tall, homespun Judge Robert F. Kennon of Minden, had 154,812. That called for a runoff. The seven losing candidates promptly swung behind Kennon...
Divorced. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 34, third son of the late President, newly elected Representative from Manhattan's 20th Congressional District (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS); by Ethel du Pont Roosevelt, 33, socialite heiress to a Du Pont chemical fortune; after almost twelve years of marriage, two children; in Minden...
Clinton M. Richie, Minden...
Having just read about the lynching in Minden, La. [TiME, Aug. 26] ... my Southern blood is boiling...
...took six days for the story to get out -because, the sheriff said, an investigation was being made. But nobody had seen anything, not a thing. The sheriff and the prosecutor didn't know any more than anybody else. Minden dozed complacently...