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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cutting out Adolf Hitler for the affections of Argentina is a project high on Franklin Roosevelt's "must" list. Last week he discussed at press conference a letter which he wrote to Secretary of State Hull last month. The subject: Argentine canned corned beef. To Mr. Hull the President said that the Buy American Act* would not be violated if the Navy Department were to accept the bid of Argentine Meat Producers Cooperative (a Government subsidy) to supply 48,000 Ibs. of corned beef at less than 16?^ per lb., nearly 8? under the nearest U. S. bidder...
...choose among the ten leading Presidential candidates. It was from Emil Edward Hurja, the sly, plump ex-newspaperman from Michigan and Alaska who used to dope elections expertly for the Democratic National Committee and now operates his own "political analyst" office in Washington, D. C. for business clients. Mr. Hurja quizzed 149,999 persons besides Dr. Gallup-some in every U. S. county-by postcard and personal interview. Leaders in his poll were Mr. Hurja's Democratic friend, John Nance Garner (45.3%) and Republican Tom Dewey (44.8%).* Runners-up: Cordell Hull (23.5%), Arthur Vandenberg...
...communities already at or near their legal debt limits and unable to cope alone with unemployment. A unique mayor last week was Ross D. Rogers of Amarillo, Tex., home of cows, dust storms and helium. Said Representative Ludlow, Indiana Democrat: "I have been in your city on several occasions, Mr. Mayor, and it strikes me that there wouldn't have been any serious trouble if there had been...
Olin R. Holt of Kokomo, Ind. might have been among the mayors testifying in Washington had he not been turned out of office by Kokomo's voters last November. Last week, Olin R. Holt was convicted, with five other Kokomen, of diverting WPA labor to private enterprise. Mr. Holt spent seven months in Leavenworth eight years ago for protecting bootleggers, regained his civil rights in 1934 when Franklin Roosevelt gave him a full pardon...
...self-effacing Farley boomlet began last month with a speech by him at Lynchburg, Va., home of irrevocably anti-Roosevelt old Carter Glass. Mr. Farley there swore fealty once more to Franklin Roosevelt, saluted his humanitarian aims, kept silence regarding the President's economic surrealism. Same week in Albany, Jim Farley's friends moved to tie up for him the New York delegation to the 1940 Democratic National Convention...