Word: sholtz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress without a thoroughly obedient majority was tedious if not impossible. The Florida and Oregon primaries were coming up. The Janizaries would teach Democrats unfaithful to the New Deal to watch their step. The Janiz ary James Roosevelt publicly plumped for New Deal Senator Pepper against onetime Governor Sholtz in the Florida primary...
...Dave Sholtz on Franklin Roosevelt: "My good friend in the White House. . . . My good friend in the White House...
...Florida's current political cockfight, Cracker Boy Wilcox's chief distinctions so far have been the facts that: 1) he has only one sound truck to two for each of his opponents; 2) his expenses are thus far listed at $3,000 to $6,000 for Sholtz, $7,000 for Pepper; 3) he made the best wisecrack of the campaign...
...tour, Representative Wilcox adheres to a curious habit to which he attributes his success, of sitting on the edge of his bed for half-an-hour each morning while he simultaneously plans his day in detail and massages his head to improve the circulation in his brain. Unlike Dave Sholtz who makes a point of stopping at a second-rate hotel wherever possible, Mr. Wilcox and his wife-who calls her 5 ft. 6 in. husband "the little giant" and whose social rivalry with Mrs. Pepper is rumored to be one reason for her husband's desire...
...would be split between Messrs. Wilcox, Sholtz and Pepper, opinions were more varied. In a Florida primary, the winning candidate must poll as many votes as all his opponents put together or face a runoff. Best guess appeared to be that Pepper would be high man in the first primary, with Sholtz and Wilcox running neck and neck for second place. If, as is likely, none of the three has the requisite majority, Florida voters will not know for sure who will succeed Claude Pepper until the runoff election...