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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witty, tobacco-spitting John William Bulow, first Democrat ever elected Governor of South Dakota, went to the Senate six years ago. He will be there no longer, for Republican Chandler Gurney, operator of radio station WNAX won his seat in a startling form reversal with the slogan "Take Politics Out of Relief." Every other Democratic seat in the Senate appeared safe, including that of J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. Most notable new Democratic voice in the Senate will be that of Representative Joshua Bryan Lee of Oklahoma, elected to replace blind, anti-New Deal Democrat Thomas Gore. A famed orator...
...split Curley's vote. Long-legged Lodge made the most of his chances. He marched into Curley's stronghold, Boston, won it and the State by a plurality that was just about the number of votes O'Brien took from Curley. When he takes the Senate seat now held by Marcus Coolidge he will subtract only one from the Democratic majority, but will alter the balance of brainpower considerably...
...Delaware, Daniel 0. Hastings, the New Deal's most bitter Senate critic and head of the Republican Senatorial Committee whose particular job was to win Senate seats throughout the U. S., went down to defeat, partly as the result of a split which resulted in two Republican tickets appearing on the ballot. His seat was won by Democrat James Hurd Hughes, snow-haired, 69-year-oldster who has dabbled most of life in politics and is a mild supporter of the New Deal. Next Republican rubbed out was Senator W. Warren Barbour, big, rich, kinky-haired onetime amateur prizefighter...
...Harry H. Schwartz, able legislator but poor campaigner who lost to him in 1930. In Iowa the victim was a stern New Deal hater, Lester Dickinson. In his place was elected mild, polished, praise-seeking Governor Clyde La Verne Herring, flower-lover and ex-Ford dealer. In Michigan, the seat of the late Senator Couzens, overwhelmingly defeated in the primaries by former Governor Wilber M. Brucker, was won by Representative Prentiss March Brown, New Dealer who was a good friend of Republican Couzens...
...Force. The Fatherland, under Göring & Schacht, is headed more than ever for "war-preparation-prosperity." Nephew Herbert Göring, hitherto obscure, now sits at Dr. Schacht's right hand, an important Reichsbank official. As a sop to Nazi radicals, Agriculture Minister Darre was given a seat on a Cabinet committee of six appointed by the Minister-President to carry out Der Vier Jahresplan...