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Last week statesmen eyed the first straw in the political wind of 1934: the Illinois primaries. On Democratic ballots 810,000 votes were cast, on Republican ballots 755,000-the largest Democratic majority in Illinois primaries. Further corroboration of a Democratic wind: all 18 Democratic Congressmen were renominated save one who did not have the backing of the State organization. All six Republican Congressmen were also renominated save one. Socialite James Simpson Jr. of Chicago's North Shore, who alone criticized the New Deal...
Wrinkled 85-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen), had the same two eminent callers again & again last fortnight. They were harassed Premier Viscount Makoto Saito and his Minister of War, General Senjuro Hayashi. Discord, scandal and sickness have jolted five men out of Saito's Cabinet. Hayashi wanted to be the sixth. Cause was his younger brother Yukichi who had been adopted as a child by the family of Shirakami and taken that name. The General felt that he was still responsible for his brother's acts, whatever his name, and Yukichi...
...Roosevelt Dall- Macmillan ($2). Babs and Dave booed a Presidential conference into silence to introduce to Grandfather a red-painted, white-coated, blue-collared rabbit named Scamper. "Welcome to the White House," said Grandfather. Scamper followed the children to Grandfather's lap, flopped his ears, ignored the conferring statesmen. That afternoon Babs and Dave took Scamper on a tour of Washington, laughed when he was unable to identify as the Treasury the building in which "dollars and quarters grow." Taken on Grandfather's yacht to Mount Vernon, he succeeded in ripping great tears in his patriotic suit. Scheming...
...between study and political activity by enabling the student to gain practical experience and the all-important contacts while he is still in graduate school. It is most certainly a beneficial move, but it can affect only a very small number and it leaves the majority of embryo statesmen in their present unsatisfactory position...
...talent which is absorbed through the lower appointive positions. In America no such entrance to politics is at present available and can be supplied only by a group of Public Service Colleges in the larger universities, colleges which would supplant the local party club as the origin of American statesmen...