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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before Georgia's Democrats went to their polls last week to vote in the next-to-last of Franklin Roosevelt's historic Purge primaries, the Purge candidate for Senator, sober-sided U. S. District Attorney Lawrence Sabyllia Camp of Atlanta, received two last-minute encouragements: the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee declared in Washington that there had been nothing improper about the discharge "for political activities" (against Mr. Camp) of Edgar Dunlap as Atlanta counsel for RFC (TIME, Aug. 29); and the fourth man in the race, Lawyer William G. McRae of Atlanta, withdrew, urging his supporters...
Grand indeed was the larceny if Mr. Talmadge was right. By a final (but unofficial) vote count, unPurged Senator George had received about 40% of the total popular vote, to 32% for Mr. Talmadge, 24% for Mr. Camp. Out of the 410 vote units among Georgia's 159 counties, he had won 246 (40 more than needed) to 148 for Mr. Talmadge, 16 for Mr. Camp. Even "President Roosevelt's county" (Meriwether, in which lies Warm Springs) chose George, then Talmadge, ahead of Camp. In upon the victor poured telegrams from Conservative Democrats...
...comments indicated that the result of the Purge would be a balkier rather than a more complaisant Senate. After the President's personal appearance in Maryland's Purge (TIME, Sept. 12), Jim Farley muttered to newsmen: "It's a bust." After last week's Georgia vote, Mr. Farley was asked, "What about the primaries...
...Ding and Dong in their race for Democratic nomination to the House for a Baltimore district last fortnight were bald-headed Representative Vincent L. Palmisano, 55, and black-thatched Thomas d'Alesandro, 35. Mr. Palmisano last week looked like the loser by perhaps 50 votes out of 25,000. As much interested in the outcome as Baltimoreans were residents of the District of Columbia. For as chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee since last April, Mr. Palmisano has been "Mayor of Washington." District of Columbians have been agitating for years, lately with vigor, for the right...
...Tuck in the race for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Maryland were Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore and Attorney General Herbert R. O'Conor. So close were totals of county delegates instructed to vote for them at the State nominating convention Sept. 28 that last week after every last ballot had been counted the final decision lay in the result of an Allegheny County recount and the "third-choice" vote of Prince George's County...