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...after six terms by San Francisco's County Supervisor Franck Havenner on a straight Re-elect Roosevelt platform. In New York, Harlem's fiery little progressive Republican Vito Marcantonio was defeated by a Tammanyman. Making up for the loss of Arizona's Isabella Greenway, retired, Oregon elected another of Eleanor Roosevelt's bridesmaids, Nanny Wood Honeyman, to replace stalwart Republican William Ekwall. In North Dakota, freckled William Lemke, whose Union Party vote for President was piddling, easily topped the field for re-election to his present Republican job as Representative-at-Large...
...Almost overnight C. I. O. Leaders Lewis & Hillman formed Labor's Non-Partisan League. To give it a New Deal flavor, they invited in as president George L. Berry, custodian of the Blue Eagle's bones. That the sole objective of the Non-Partisan League was to re-elect Franklin Roosevelt should, Messrs. Lewis, Hillman & Berry declared, "be sufficiently clear to anyone...
...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...
...agreements, Italian reprisals and serious armed Fascist threats at home, 1931's Man of the Year stood almost an even chance of repeating in 1935. . . . If in 1932 the Republicans and Democrats of the U. S., faced with an A. F. of L. uprising, hid combined to re-elect Herbert Hoover to pull them out of the Depression, and if then some member of his cabinet such as a Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt had rapidly
...onetime No. 2 New Dealer, has made "not one inch of progress" toward solving the farm and unemployment problems. Its work relief program is a "fantastical flop." Its fiscal policies, if unchecked, will result in the "creation of floods of printing press money." Let us therefore, cried the General, re-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt...