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...Governor Eugene Talmadge apparently swore the most convincingly. He might wear outlandish cowboy clothes in public and his wife might hang the family wash in the front yard of the executive mansion, but the back-country farmers trooped to the polls to renominate him in a primary that was tantamount to election...
Representative Ernest Whitworth Marland decided he could do more for the New Deal by running for Governor. In the primary last month he won a nomination that was tantamount to election...
...definitely helpful at the polls. In last week's primary Senator Thomas Perry ("Tom") Connally, warm personal friend of the President and warm supporter of his policies, swamped his opponent, Joseph W. Bailey Jr., who had canvassed vigorously against the New Deal, in a victory which was tantamount to reelection. A Congressman for twelve years before his election to the Senate in 1928, Senator Connally wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, chews gum or tobacco, makes able and frequent speeches in a syrupy drawl...
...hooded head of the Ku Klux Klan was raised in Alabama last week as the State held its Democratic run-off primaries, tantamount to election. Bibb Graves, onetime (1927-31) Governor, became the first man in 33 years to succeed to that office a second time. Defeated by 20,000 votes, Major Frank M. Dixon, Birmingham lawyer, loudly cried that Graves's victory was a triumph for the long dormant Klan. Not only did Bibb Graves deny the accusation, but the Grand Dragon of the State assured one & all that only six of his Klaverns are now active, none...
...like a golf cup. than a political post, the House seat of Louisiana's 6th Congressional District was last week put up for competition for the third time in ten months. Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, widow of the onetime incumbent, won the first leg in a Democratic primary (tantamount to election) railroaded through by the Huey Long machine (TIME. Dec. 18 et seq.). Three weeks later Jared Young Sanders Jr., 42, onetime State Senator and son of a onetime Congressman and Governor, was declared the victor in a "citizens' '' election staged by the anti-Long faction...