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Richard T. Davis '38, Lowell House resident, will go to the ballots today in the Medford non-partisan primaries for alderman today. According to observers he has an excellent chance to survive the primaries and stay in the running although his chances in the final election in November are not so certain...
Last week some 190,000 Cleveland voters trooped to the polls in a non-partisan primary to cull surplus candidates, leaving the two high men to choose from as Mayor of U. S. City No. 6. While a Mayor will not be elected until next month, observers knew the primary would hint whether Cleveland was ready to switch from Republican to Democrat...
...controversy over the ambulance last spring the persons handling the $2700 were not more careful about the use to which the supplies were put, no matter how sincere and correct their intentions. Students of all political beliefs gave generously their money and time to what was described as a non-partisan, humanitarian mission. A mistake was made, although a small one, in allowing the ambulance in a demonstration which was at least open to misinterpretation...
...industry and ban interstate shipment of goods produced by child labor. Passed by the Senate, the bill was reported favorably by the House Labor Committee but kept off the floor by a clique of Southern members of the Rules Committee. As chairman of Labor's Non-Partisan League, John L. Lewis of C. I. O. denounced the House Committee Wages & Hours tie-up, threatened to form a new party to effect social legislation if the Democratic Party failed to do so. William Green of A. F. of L., no real enthusiast for the bill, also made some deprecating remarks...
...Today's question: In the light of your currently professed friendship for Mr. Roosevelt's policies, Mr. Shaw, why do the labor-baiting Los Angeles Times, the howling Hearst press, the local Liberty Leaguers, the Partisan non-partisan Republicans, the professional patriots, the underworld forces and all the reactionary elements, which in 1936 waged a slanderous, slimy, insolent, stupid and disastrous communistic campaign against President Roosevelt, plus a few nominal Democrats of mercenary inclination, now wage precisely the same sort of campaign against me and in support of you, as they supported Merriam in 1934 and Landon...