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...Senate seated Bill Langer "without prejudice," reserved the right to unseat him later. A pair of sleuths went out to North Dakota, turned over Langer's 30-year record with a fine-tooth muckrake. On the basis of their report, the committee summoned Langer to testify at a public hearing. The Senate wanted the answers to such questions as these, raised by the testimony...
Waging his second campaign for election as U. S. representative from this district, Thomas H. Eliot '28 began door to door canvassing yesterday in an uphill fight to unseat his Republican opponent, Representative Robert Luce...
...trade by votes. The Shanghai Municipal Council, a true plutocracy, is elected by qualified ratepayers to represent business interests; Japanese businessmen have therefore been moving in, already control more than a third of the ratepayers' votes, may control more by election time in April. Should they unseat the British-American bloc now in command, the wobbly Chinese dollar, hitherto bolstered by British (?5,000,000) and American ($25,000,000) loans, might lose exchange value faster still...
Chairman Hamilton himself at Cleveland (barging into the campaign of Robert A. Taft, who is trying to unseat Ohio's Senator Bulkley) : "The money you have paid into the Treasury for your old-age pension is not there. It has been spent, for Heaven knows what, and in its place is only an I.O.U. Unless the law is changed, when the time comes to start paying you a pension the Treasury will be required either to default or to tax you and the remainder of the country to get the money. . . . Instead of weakening Social Security, Republicans will strengthen...
...recently said that Pennsylvania's Democratic primary campaign reminded him of Dante's Inferno. Suave Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence had refused to support the United Mine Workers' Secretary, Thomas Kennedy, for Governor. So Senator Joe Guffey and Miner John L. Lewis formed an alliance to unseat the regular Democratic organization. Not only did Guffey-Lewis back Miner Kennedy against the organization's gubernatorial candidate, a mild, mustached Pittsburgh lawyer named Charles Alvin Jones. They also supported Philadelphia's mud-slinging ex-Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson against Governor George Earle for the Senatorial nomination...