Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week-one day before the anniversary of Long's death-Georgians will have a chance to supply the nation with a Senate successor who comes considerably closer to matching the talents and temperament of the late Kingfish. To oust Senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr., 38, from his comfortable seat in the Democratic primary (as good as election) is the supreme purpose of Governor Eugene ("Our Gene") Talmadge, 51, and a large but indefinite number of Georgians...
...also about its most independent. Nominally a Republican, he has given vast aid and comfort to the New Deal in the last three years. Up for renomination in the September primary, Senator Couzens is opposed by Michigan's onetime Governor Wilbur M. Brucker. Refusing to campaign for his seat, the onetime partner of Henry Ford went off for a yacht cruise, remarking: "I don't intend to compete with Brucker. If the people are dissatisfied with my work, I shall be content to stand aside." Back in Detroit last week, rich and radical Senator Couzens seemed...
...Bilbo a $6,000 job in Washington when that undersized politician was down & out of office, and in spite of favors he did Bilbo after his election to the Senate in 1934, "The Man" Bilbo renounced Mississippi's senior Senator to back Conner for Harrison's seat. Last week when President Roosevelt suddenly summoned Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee to Washington for a conference on taxes, the Mississippi campaign temporarily became a battle of governors: onetime Governor Conner and onetime Governor Bilbo v. Governor Hugh White and onetime Acting Governor Dennis Murphree, whom the New Deal...
Baseball. Since sport has become a major item in Nazi Germany's program of self-improvement, popularity of all sporting spectacles in Germany has jumped far beyond anything ever seen in the U. S. Berlin's 110,000-seat Olympic Stadium was packed every day of the Games, even when practically nothing was going on inside it. In the Stadium last week assembled two amateur U. S. baseball teams, one of college players, the other of members of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club, to "demonstrate" the sport. If any two such teams bothered to play...
...statement split Commissioner Carpenter and Pacific Mutual's old management. Promptly to bat went four officers and directors of old Pacific Mutual, including 73-year-old George Ira Cochran, president of the company for 30 years until last autumn when he was moved to the chairman's seat to make room for President Kemp. In a complaint to set aside the reorganization, they accused Commissioner Carpenter of inexperience, charged that he had sprung the reorganization on them without due warning. Next move of Commissioner Carpenter was to file a $511,650 suit for misuse of Pacific Mutual funds...