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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside Congress: Despite twelve years' minute attention to his local political fences, he is now confronted with the battle of his career to retain his Senate seat. Louisiana holds its Democratic primary Sept. 13. Two years ago Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long, State boss, turned bewhiskered old Joseph Eugene Ransdell out of the Senate to get his seat. This year Senator Long has picked a neophyte Representative named John Holmes Overton to turn out Senator Broussard, give himself complete domination of Louisiana's Senatorial delegation. Campaigning vigorously, Senator Broussard has been denouncing the Long economic theories as Communistic, promising...
...memories. As at their 13 other conventions, thousands of legionaries, converging in Portland, will dress up in bright uniforms and, behind blaring bands, parade past the Multnomah Stadium packed with 35,000 admiring citizens. Meetings will be held in the 16-year-old auditorium on Clay Street which will seat 4,000 delegates. For the convention's entertainment the Oregon Legislature voted $25,000. Portland businessmen made up an additional play pot. As a courtesy the Navy is sending two cruisers to Portland under Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, commander-in-chief of the U. S. Fleet...
...Amazons, leading Grandmother Zetkin down to her Deputy's seat, shook their fists at the Fascists who mockingly chirped one line from a German popular song: "It happens only once...
...Looking back now I doubt if I ever felt more elated than when I was a youngster and on occasions would go galloping out driving the ambulance to bring in one of our ailing brewery wagon horses. And what a thrill I had once when I mounted the seat and actually took out one of our tandem outfits. . . . When the elevated railroad structures were built it sounded the knell of tandems pulling brewery wagons. It was too much of a trick to guide them in and out around the 'L' pillars. Ah, but there was a sight...
...became Secretary of Labor in 1921, he talked Moose to all- comers, signed up Senators and Congressmen. Smart politicians took care to join the Secretary's order when they wanted favors at the Labor Department. When Moose Davis resigned from the Cabinet in 1930 to take a Senate seat, he sold his promotion contract to other members of the order for a handsome profit. Last week's charges against him shocked his friends and followers, who always considered his interest in Mooseheart a sincere benevolence above any allegation of personal profit...