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...been a bad week for the Senator. A longtime Huey Long ally, a Th'rd-Termer, a filibusterer, an energetic retimes embarrassing Administration supporter ("I want to help Mr. Roosevelt do the same things for the nation that Huey did for Louisiana"), Senator Ellender kept right on doing business at the old stand. He fought Sam Houston Jones just before Jones swept the State and smashed the Long machine. He boosted Longster Dick
...through Nevada in July, Franklin Roosevelt encouraged the fledgling New Dealer by calling him "Brother Hilliard." Last week young "Brother Hilliard" crashed to earth as old Pat McCarran soared off witha 3-to-1 majority. Against Democrat McCarran in November will run Republican Tasker Lowndes Oddie, old-time two-termer (1921-33), whom Senator McCarran beat in landsliding 1932 by only 1,964 votes...
While Franklin Roosevelt was instructing Georgia and hinting to South Carolina about his preference in Senators, four other States last week held primaries which instructed both Franklin Roosevelt and his enemies that in politics there are still a few issues besides the New Deal. Internationalist, Graft, Third Termer, Million Dollar Candidate, many another symbol or shibboleth antedating March 4, 1933, rang through the hot campaign...
...years ago Representative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts, Republican 13-termer, beat Author Owen (The Var mint) Johnson of Stockbridge, Mass, who ran against him as a New Dealer. Last week, Author Johnson announced he was out again for Congress. Mr. Treadway, 70, said he would run again...
...same thing. But when you state that ''time" is unimportant to a "lifer," you merely admit an unconsidered contemplation of a "lifer's" outlook.* As a matter of fact, time is of more importance to a "lifer" who is alive than it is to the ordinary termer. The termer has a more or less definite time of freedom to look forward to. But the lifer has constantly before him the vision of a possible parole or commutation. His conduct is constantly under more careful scrutiny than the termer because it has so much more bearing upon...