Word: otha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Political lightning struck Iowa when Harry Hopkins, boss of WPA and a sitter on the New Deal Olympus, flatly plumped for Representative Otha Donner Wearin in this week's Democratic Senatorial primary (TIME, June 6). What would otherwise have been a routine performance amid the fields of waving corn, with Senator Guy Mark Gillette walking sedately off renominated, was instantly transformed into a microcosm of the national political situation, a furious hurly-burly involving scores of participants far beyond Iowa's borders...
...Otha Wearin, meantime, was playing up the Hopkins endorsement for all it was worth. It made him, he insisted, manifestly the anointed choice of the White House. Scornfully he exposed an effort by Senator Herring to get him to sign a post-primary peace agreement with Senator Gillette. This, he said, was an insidious effort by the Senators to suggest that...
...informed that a story is being circulated that I canceled a trip I proposed to make in Iowa in behalf of the candidacy of Otha Wearin during my recent visit to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester. Minn...
...This is a deliberate misrepresentation intended to injure my friend, Otha Wearin...
...other government official to express his views on political contests in a state of which he is a native, was strongly defended by President Roosevelt today. Striking out at newspaper and Congressional criticism that Hopkins sought to "play politics with human misery" when he stated his preferences for Rep. Otha D. Wearin, young New Dealer, to Son, Guy M. Gillette in Iowa's Democratic senatorial primary race, the Chief Executive described the agitation as a great deal of smoke...