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Significance. No more significance than a circus would the Cleveland goings-on have had if 1936 were not a Presidential year, if polls and experienced observers did not forecast a close election. Because of these facts, the coalition of discontent welded last week when Pensioneer Townsend and Share-Our-Wealther Smith agreed to back Inflationist Lemke, go on a four-ring barnstorming tour with him and Inflationist Coughlin, aroused serious political speculation. Hardly the simplest-minded members of the Lemke-Coughlin-Smith-Townsend following could expect their votes to put North Dakota's Lemke in the White House. What...
...issues of Federal securities. Otherwise the Finance Committee's bill had been passed intact. Bob La Follette's politically preposterous notion that the bill should be turned into a respectable revenue raiser by taxing the "little fellow" had been shrugged off with two decisive votes. Share-the-Wealther Huey Long had not even bothered to attend the session...
...President Roosevelt, not Secretary Morgenthau, not Senate Finance Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, not Share-the-Wealther Huey Long, in fact hardly anyone except the rawboned, 6 ft.-2 in. North Carolina mountaineer who is Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee had a good word to say in public for the measure. Against Chairman Doughton's loyal but half-hearted defense rose the critical outcry of thousands of Republicans, businessmen, plain citizens. Declared Republican Ways & Means Committeemen in their minority report...
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