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...even more essential that he get the measure passed. This was no easy job. The Upper House has a Democratic majority of one, but they are mostly Tammanymen who waged a bitter fight against Lehman (& Roosevelt) two years ago. The Lower House is Republican but two factions of Repub licans spent eight days quarreling over the election of a clerk. Finally on the ninth day the Assembly got itself organized, prepared to send the Economy Bill to a special committee. When the compromise bill was finally introduced in the Lower House, the Democratic minority leader blocked consideration...
...each of the eight, four-by which time 7,921 people will have contributed $15,842 to benefit the 1,700 draughtsmen, drunk approximately 31,-684 cocktails to the benefit of 1,536 bootleggers, eaten approximately 180 Ibs. of caviar to the benefit of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-lics...
...Michigan has been a faith fully Republican district since 1898 when Joseph Warren ("Old Joe") Fordney, co author of the 1922 Tariff Act, took it away from Ferdinand Brucker, Demo cratic father of Michigan's present Repub lican Governor. Year ago the late Bird J. Vincent, thin, greyish Republican Representative, defeated a big, blond, slow-moving Democrat named Michael J. ("Mike") Hart by 20,000 votes. This year Mr. Hart, a bean jobber of Saginaw who runs an 800-acre farm, was again nominated, this time against Republican Foss O. Eldred of Ionia. Nominee Hart declared Wet, had the support...
...House.? Representative Cooper entered the House in 1893 (53rd Congress). His anti-War stand caused his defeat for the 66th Congress (1919-21). He was re-elected in 1920. Total service: 35 years.? Representative Cooper made a memorable impression upon all delegates at the G. O. P. Repub- lican National Convention at Cleveland in 1924 when, a La Follette supporter, he defied the Old Guard in a thumping speech from the rostrum...
whose striking political philosophizing earned the praise of Liberals everywhere. Backed by the Straights (Mrs. Straight was also a founder of the Junior League), Mr. Croly began editing The New Repub lic in November 1914. Its appeal was almost immediate. To. enlightened young men emerging from college, unwilling to immerse themselves entirely in their professions or industries, it offered repeated, cultivated doses of broadmindedness, enquired with dignified persistence into the affairs of the Commonwealth. In the editorial office sat "H. C.." smoking incessantly, speaking in a voice scarcely above a whisper, writing with the great caution and difficulty...