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...Republican come-back and what should be their issues was a question he did not answer, a question so obvious that every G. O. Partisan in the land was trying to answer it. On the morning after, the first name that occurred to anyone was that of Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, the only Republican Senator to be re-elected on terms even mildly resembling a Party victory. He had carried Michigan and towed many of that State's Republican Representatives to victory with him. His record was not a record of outright opposition to the New Deal but of compromise...
...some Republicans, however, Senator Vandenberg appeared more of an opportunist than a liberal. For national party leadership this group suggested Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon who was not up for re-election this year, who took no part in the campaign. No standpatter, Senator McNary has placed himself adroitly half way between the Republican archconservatives and the Republican insurgents. Quick to seize last week's hint he proclaimed: "The Republican Party must have a program and it must be a forward-looking one. ... In my opinion it will keep the faith...
Also Wons: Democrat Edward Raymond Burke whose New Deal eulogies were feelingly quoted by President Roosevelt at Green Bay, over Republican Robert Simmons after a series of ten public debates; in Nebraska. Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg over Democrat Frank A. Picard, descendant of French acrobats, who accused his opponent of trying to walk a tightrope on the New Deal; in Michigan. Farmer-Laborite Senator Henrik Shipstead for his third term; in Minnesota. Republican-Democrat-Progressive-Commonwealth Hiram Johnson, over a lone Socialist; in California. Democratic Senator Royal S. Copeland over an "Arrow-collar" Republican and Socialist Norman Thomas...
...political "angel" he had financed his party through long lean years of defeat. Instead, Democrats chose for Governor a Detroit attorney named Arthur J. Lacy. For Senator the Democrats picked Frank A. Picard, militant New Dealer and head of the State liquor commission, to oppose Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican incumbent...
...Michigan. "Horatio J. Abbott." Next day Mr. Morgenthau suspended Deputy Collector Tighe and another one-time Abbott appointee, dumped a mass of evidence on campaign cash-collecting by jobholders into the lap of Attorney General Cummings. Keeping well out of the Democratic cleanup, Michigan's Republican Senator Vandenberg remarked: "As long as they run their own laundry, I see no reason to get soap in my eyes...