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...farm Democrats had badly fumbled a major domestic issue. Since there was now virtually no prospect of a farm bill this session, they might pay for their mistake at the polls in the wavering Midwest. They had also ignored a warning sounded fortnight before by a respected fellow Democrat, Rhode Island's John Fogarty, that farm-subsidy programs are "foolish programs that have not helped even those farmers for whom the legislation was intended in the first place." After the vote there was talk in the cloakrooms for the first time in 30 years that the time was close...
...A.A.M.C.'s proposal, incorporated in a bill sponsored by Rhode Island's Democratic Representative John Fogarty: raise $325 million in the next five years, half to come from the federal Treasury, half from matching funds provided by the schools themselves, for modernization. This way, it is esti mated, 1,100 new freshman places could be created. The Fogarty bill also proposes a $2 billion program to build 20 or more new schools, with the Government putting up two-thirds...
During his student days at Brown University, "Johnny Rock" overcame some of his shyness, won a Phi Beta Kappa key and the heart of pretty Abby Aldrich, the daughter of Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich. At 23, the young man entered his father's austere offices at 26 Broadway, first filling the inkwells and performing other humble chores. Four years later he and Abby were married. When he asked her father for her hand, and awkwardly tried to explain that he could support her properly, Senator Aldrich gently changed the subject...
...struck the political spark is balding Aime Forand, 64. One of 16 children born to a New England loom fixer, Aime Forand quit grade school to help support his blind father ("I know what it means to scratch"), went on to become a Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island. For 22 unspectacular years, Forand was barely noticed in Washington-until he suggested that the social security system be expanded to cover health insurance for the aged. Forand's plan: boost social security taxes ¼% for employees and ¼% for employers, use the funds to finance surgical costs...
...lost him. If he had been a Protestant and nonetheless Al Smith in all other respects, the South might have remained solid (though he would still have lost many Southern votes as a big-city wet). But a Protestant Smith could not have carried heavily Catholic Massachusetts or Rhode Island, or racked up a net plurality in the twelve biggest cities. It may be true that no Roman Catholic can get elected President of the U.S., but the election of 1928 did not prove...