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...turned away. So Nominee Peterson began crying out at Republican rallies that Chairman Emerson, conservative Pullman merchant, was subtly working for his defeat by withholding campaign cooperation. Last week at a G. O. P. meeting at Bellingham. again outside the doors of a party clam-dinner from the rostrum of which he had been excluded, Rev. Payson Peterson loudly demanded Chairman Emerson's resignation, charged that Emerson was getting not only his funds but his directions from William Curtise Butler...
...Theoretical he was, but no novice; in the past 28 years he has run for Congressman in New Jersey, for Congressman, Senator and Governor in California. He has a face that looks like Henry Ford gone slightly fey, a pleasing voice, a wide smile and immense persuasiveness on the rostrum. He hitched EPIC to the New Deal, implied Rooseveltian approval. Too late Senator William Gibbs McAdoo rushed Wartime Propagandist George Creel into the breach. At the primary last August ex-Socialist Sinclair trounced Democrat Creel by nearly 150,000 votes, received a majority over all eight of his opponents, polled...
...long time it has been since any U. S. steelmaster strode to a rostrum, thrust out his chin and in so many words predicted a more glowing future for the industry than anything in its molten past. Last week's steel production, 23% of capacity, was nothing to make steelmen loquacious. But in Manhattan the learned American Society for Metals heard from the lips of Tom Mercer Girdler, steelmen's steelman and president-chairman of Republic Steel Corp., these words...
Thereupon some 50 distinguished men and women began taking turns at the speaker's rostrum where alert, bird-like Mrs. Meloney presided, or before microphones in faraway places. Busy Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt dashed down from Hyde Park to give the Conference one of her neat little speeches which sound so much more important than they look in print. Said she: "The higher standards which women now set themselves, for whatever work they engage in, will raise the standard of men's work. . . . The biggest change in standards must come [in] the field of business and of labor...
...also made Father O'Malley an officeholder for the first time in his life. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of the sovereign and progressive State of Wisconsin. For the last 19 months Lieutenant Governor O'Malley has divided his time between punching tickets and pounding his gavel on the rostrum of Wisconsin's Senate. Last week he proved his willingness to do both for the New Deal...