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...below average in ability. Not so Homer Brown. Quiet, effective, popular, he is sought out by his white colleagues for his opinions on constitutional law-which is his heavyweight hobby. That attribute, plus his oratorical persuasiveness, pegs him as the lower house's most influential member on nonpartisan legislation. No stooge for his party, Homer Brown voted to impeach Pittsburgh's comic Democratic Mayor McNair, to investigate Democratic Governor Earle's beclouded administration...
Better luck attended the limelight performance of Voit Gilmore, 20, chairman of the nonpartisan, undergraduate Carolina Political Union (and president of his Chi Psi chapter). He began working last summer to get the foremost U. S. political orator of the age down to Chapel Hill to address his group, which prides itself on paying no honorariums and on cross-questioning its speakers when they are through. His college president, Dr. Frank Porter Graham, Senators Josiah Bailey and Bob Reynolds, Representative Bob Doughton and officials of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at Winston-Salem (where Voit Gilmore lives) all helped...
...population on work relief rolls (2.1) is still the eighth highest in the nation. Although some publicists claim that the Security Program has cared for 22,000 out of 88,000 Mormons in distress, most investigators have concluded that the church has as yet no reliable figures. Significantly, nonpartisan Mormons have for the church's own good lately attempted to correct widespread misunderstandings of the Security Program. Said a paragraph buried in the church's last annual report: "The church has not yet made any effort, or pretended to make any effort, to take its members from governmental...
...which they were accused: cashing unnumbered city checks, spending city funds without vouchers, splitting fees with contractors for imaginary services, bribing State legislators (notably to get a law passed requiring the use in public toilets of sterilization equipment in which Lieutenant Governor Hayes and colleagues were interested). Strictly nonpartisan, the indictment named Republicans as well as Democrats. Honest, fussy, old (76) Democratic Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, who was dean of the Yale Graduate School until he retired eight years ago to politics, demanded that Lieutenant Governor Hayes and other State officials involved hand in their resignations...
...nonpartisan Tax Research Foundation estimated this year from latest available statistics (1934-35) that total revenue from all tax sources was raised in the following countries per capita in dollars thus...