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...Satevepost advertising revenue had fallen below $18,000,000, and although "nonpartisan, but never neutral" had been a strict Lorimer policy, the New Deal brought out his Republican individualism. In 1934 his ordinarily innocuous editorial page began to sputter and fume about "Who is Going to Pay?", "Roads to Nowhere." But Satevepost profits, unlike those of many other New Deal haters, surged ahead. Publisher Curtis had turned over Satevepost and Curtis Publishing Co. in its entirety to Mr. Lorimer in 1932, and when Lorimer retired at the beginning of this year he left the Curtis house well in order...
...candidates in office. Backed by Labor's Non-Partisan League, now nothing more than C. I. O.'s national political arm, the United Automobile Workers proposed to bid for control of the fourth city of the land. Detroit's charter provides for a nonpartisan primary with a run-off election. Since most of the municipal jobs are appointive the campaign hinges on the mayoralty and the nine seats on the common council, which is elected at large. The purpose of last week's primary was to narrow the field of mayoralty candidates from five...
Whoever told you that we had that sum, grossly exaggerated the fact. We have a small endowment much less than half that sum, just enough to attract sensible givers, who wish to give to a going concern, nonpartisan, courageous and non-purchasable, always alert to tackle the paramount issue. We are. able to do a vast work, if we had an endowment of a million...
Caught squarely between these opposing forces was President Roosevelt. He had counted on the virtually unanimous support of Labor at the polls in November. But, while cautious William Green clung to A. F. of L.'s nonpartisan tradition and refused to pledge it publicly to the New Deal, bold John Lewis had rushed in to place his industrial unionists solidly behind the President, help organize Labor's Non-Partisan League to work for his reelection. When Franklin Roosevelt gratefully accepted this support, craft unionists began to suspect that he would reward it by siding with John Lewis...
...parade of visitors past his desk that fact was emphasized. He confabbed with Senator Wagner who will write his 1936 platform; with John L. Lewis, backer of Labor's Nonpartisan League to re-elect Roosevelt, Democratic Chairman Farley, Governors Davey of pivotal Ohio and McNutt of pivotal Indiana, with AAAd-ministrator Davis who lately returned from a trip to Europe to begin a grand tour of the farm states to bind farmers to the New Deal...