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From Oregon to Pennsylvania, from Rhode Island's pipe-smoking scion William H. Vanderbilt to Minnesota's boyish Harold Stassen, keynote of the gubernatorial inaugurations popping over the land last week was the return of Republicanism-epitomized by Wisconsin's "hardheaded" Julius Peter Heil. But in one State the political pendulum swung far to the Left. That was moonkissed California where Culbert Levy Olson, 62, started his State's first Democratic administration in 44 years. Governor Olson celebrated by pardoning the most famed prisoner...
Born. To Marshall Field III, 45, Chicago department store scion; and his third wife, Ruth Pruyn Phipps Field, 32; a daughter; in Manhattan. The baby (their second, her fourth, his fifth) was expected to become an aunt shortly, since her half-sister, Mrs. Anthony A. Bliss. 21, was due to become a mother...
...Democrat, decided to take the job. Since Mexicans liked his fluent Spanish and to solid citizens a Kleberg was a Kleberg, he had little trouble. This year he won his fifth nomination with practiced ease over a Townsend Planner and a crusading newspaperman who criticized him as a scion of autocracy. He did not deign to mention either of them...
Career: Robert Johns (not "Bob" but "Roy") Bulkley has more hair and more money than most Senators. Scion of a well-heeled pioneer family-Cleveland has a Bulkley Building, a Bulkley Boulevard-he graduated from Harvard in 1902, two years before Franklin Roosevelt, with whom he worked on the undergraduate daily Crimson. From Harvard Law School he returned to Cleveland to practice corporation law, manage his inherited real estate, and indulge a gentleman's interest in low-tariff Democratic politics which got him into Congress in 1911. Once there, he blossomed out as a prot...
...Rhode Island Republicans, convening at storm-battered Providence, nominated for Governor the bearer of a name famed in many things save politics-William Henry Vanderbilt, 36, son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who went down with the Lüsitania. Scion Vanderbilt has dabbled in Rhode Island politics since he became a State Senator ten years ago. His mother, Mrs. Paul FitzSimmons of Newport, is Republican National Committeewoman. Accepting the nomination, Politician Vanderbilt promised he would seek neither higher office nor a second term. His opponents: Democratic Governor Robert E. ("Fighting Bob") Quinn; Walter E. O'Hara, operator of Narragansett...