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...leading candidate was still Illinois's Committeeman Werner Schroeder, who, although he disclaimed any campaign on his own part, had the backing of a diversified group that included Old Guardists, ex-isolationists, and those who would like to oust Wendell Willkie from a dominant place in the G.O.P...
...real tussle will be between homespun Senator Johnson, who survived an attempt by Colorado New Dealers to oust him in last week's primary, and Governor Carr, who won the Republican nomination without opposition. Self-educated Ed Johnson, 58, who would have none of the Administration before Pearl Harbor, is dear to the hearts of Colorado's conservative Democrats and has a simple, plain-spoken genius for winning elections...
...Radcliffe Purity League was born in the midst of a minor political revolution in one of the dormitories. An attempt to oust a student Hall president from office resulted in splitting the members of the hall into two warring factions. The political issue soon faded into insignificance. After 32 of the 79 girls living in the dorm refused to sign a petition calling for the removal of their student leader, the majority labeled them the "dirty thirties," a name carrying the stigma of immorality...
...They were being told to buy war bonds. Who was the master of ceremonies? Jimmy Walker. I can remember twelve years ago when the whole nation breathed a sigh of relief when the then Governor Roosevelt of New York State had the courage to put on the pressure and oust Walker as mayor. And now Walker is telling me and several thousand others to buy war bonds. Out of 7,000,000 people they have to pick...
Tricky Campaigner Burton Wheeler, now estivating at his Glacier Park cabin, (thus "necessarily absent" from Senate roll calls), has once before jumped over to the Republican Party to beat an enemy. That was in 1938, when he backed Jakie Thorkelson to oust Representative Jerry O'Connell. Last week Montanans wondered whether Senator Wheeler, in the event Murray and Rankin are nominated, would again cross party lines. They wondered, too, on what issues Wheeler could campaign...