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...neophyte, Gale Schis-ler, fend off the challenge of able G.O.P. State Legislator Tom Railsback. Ironically, the Illinois Democratic machine's only major victory was the election of Adlai Stevenson III, father-like son of the late Democratic presidential nominee, as state treasurer, by a hair-thin 30,758 votes???despite the fact that the party bosses had asked Stevenson to run for the post only because Senator Paul Douglas thought that the Stevenson name would help him in his own race...
...election in 1962, Javits was opposed by James B. Donovan, the Kennedy candidate who had made the headlines as chief negotiator of the deal by which Fidel Castro traded 9,700 Bay of Pigs prisoners for $53 million in drugs and foods. Javits won by 980,000 votes???again, he was the biggest winner anywhere in the U.S.?and became the first Republican since Calvin Coolidge to carry New York City...
...simple: no man is to have an income of more than $1,000,000 per year; no beneficiary is to inherit more than $5,000,000. Incomes and inheritances are to be limited by Federal taxation. For that program in the next Congress Huey Long will control three votes???his own, Senator Overton's and Mrs. Caraway's?which is more than any Wall Streeter claims...
...York. Not even Alfred Emanuel Smith ever rolled up so vast a lead? more than 715.000 votes???as Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt had over Charles Henry Tuttle of the increasingly disorganized New York G. O. P. The figures increased the validity, if not the valence, of Governor Roosevelt's ambition to be No. 1 U. S. Democrat...
...voted against the War, and was temporarily ostracized. He started the investigation which led to the oil lease scandals. In 1924, calling dissatisfied farmers, radicals and socialists to his banner, he ran independently for President. He got over 4,000,000 popular votes and 13 electoral votes???Wisconsin's. His last year was spent mostly away from Congress, in quest of health in Florida...