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Bitterly attacking the Roosevelt administration's handling of the relief problem, Steiwer said, "The Republican party will not turn its back on these in distress, but it will make sure that public funds voted to feed hungry months will be used for that purpose and will not be employed for the enrichment of political straphangers...
...matters rather less than many imagine whether Governor Landon, Senator Vandenburg, Colonel Knox, or some one of the darker horses like Senator Steiwer is finally nominate. It would matter a great deal if Senator Borah, by some freak turn of Fortune's wheel, were nominated. Should he, with his inflationary visions and incept record in foreign affairs, be nominated, the voter would face the unpleasant prospect of choosing between the devil and the deep blue...
...harangue which is forgotten by the time the first nominating ballot is taken. Nonetheless the Press made a great stir last week when, as a gesture to the West and liberals, the potent Committee on Arrangements of the Republican National Committee picked Oregon's mildly progressive Senator Frederick Steiwer to sound the Party keynote at Cleveland next June. Republican newspapers tried to make the gesture seem important. Democratic sheets gleefully compared the probable content of Senator Steiwers address with his voting record in Congress. Still remembered was big, friendly Steiwer's enigmatic platform when he began his first...
...National Recovery Act and removed the governmental clutch from the throat of American business. ... In its effort to meet the agricultural problem, the New Deal has failed. . . . Needless, spendthrift addition to this crushing [national] debt is but little short of criminal." Last week it was widely noted that Senator Steiwer had voted for NRA. for AAA and the AAAmendments, had led the Senate fight against President Roosevelt's Economy Act of 1933, had twice voted to override the President's veto of the Bonus...
...their keynoter in Philadelphia next June, Democratic chieftains last week also chose a genial, slow-spoken Senator, one every bit as big and rugged and impressive-looking as Republican Steiwer. By coming out early for Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky's Alben William Barkley got the post of keynoter at the Democratic convention in 1932. By unwavering loyalty to the New Deal, Senator Barkley won the same reward this year. He cannot, however, rehash the same speech. Denouncing and deploring four years ago, he will this year have to commend and indorse...