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...Stubborn Mr. Stelle announced he was still Acting Governor; quiet Mr. Nudelman still went on running things; Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Dwight Green shook happy hands with Republican Senatorial Candidate C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks. Hastily Mayor Kelly struck off a statement praising Roosevelt and Humanity and set out for a Florida vacation with horsy Mr. Nash...
...More stubborn, the Templins refused to budge, last week were still in India...
Cordell Hull. Last week the prospects of Secretary of State Hull faded-ironically enough, in the moment of his biggest victory (see p. 18). Not one of the Western Democratic Senators who voted against the reciprocal trade agreements was picayune, stubborn, or merely stupid. They reflected the Western electorate's firm belief that the program hurts cattlemen, farmers, miners. No Democratic boss in the West believed last week that the party could win with Mr. Hull, news almost certainly received gratefully by unambitious Mr. Hull, 68. No one in the U. S. saw anything unPresidential about Mr. Hull except...
...Senate torn by an effort to make politics pure continued last week to ignore a resolution by New Hampshire's stubborn Charles W. Tobey. Mr. Tobey wanted the Senate to deplore the Census Bureau's income and personal questions. Flying in Mr. Tobey's direction came a brickbat from Franklin Roosevelt, a concession from Commerce Secretary Harry Hopkins. Snapped Mr. Roosevelt, touchy last week with a cold: "For the first time . . . a U. S. Senator has openly advised the American people to violate the law." Mr. Hopkins, still ill and away from his desk for the eighth...
...sabotage. Said the aristocratic Senator: "Nominate a man who lives in a two-family house! Never!".) Fuess carefully assembles all the crabbed Coolidge wisecracks on record. No biographer has been at greater pains to disprove Coolidge's reputed coldness, or to attest his personal and political integrity, his stubborn loyalty to democracy as Vermont Yankees knew...