Word: wearin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Political lightning struck Iowa when Harry Hopkins, boss of WPA and a sitter on the New Deal Olympus, flatly plumped for Representative Otha Donner Wearin in this week's Democratic Senatorial primary (TIME, June 6). What would otherwise have been a routine performance amid the fields of waving corn, with Senator Guy Mark Gillette walking sedately off renominated, was instantly transformed into a microcosm of the national political situation, a furious hurly-burly involving scores of participants far beyond Iowa's borders...
...taking over, if possible, the control of the Democratic party organization in 1940." Along with' Harry Hopkins he damned Tommy Corcoran, Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas, Homer Martin of the C.I.O. and Communist Earl Browder as other non-lowans who had unrighteously butted in by endorsing Mr. Wearin. He referred to his vote against the President's Supreme Court bill as "my crime . . . which has brought down upon me and my candidacy this pack of political wolves from all over the United States...
...Otha Wearin, meantime, was playing up the Hopkins endorsement for all it was worth. It made him, he insisted, manifestly the anointed choice of the White House. Scornfully he exposed an effort by Senator Herring to get him to sign a post-primary peace agreement with Senator Gillette. This, he said, was an insidious effort by the Senators to suggest that...
...informed that a story is being circulated that I canceled a trip I proposed to make in Iowa in behalf of the candidacy of Otha Wearin during my recent visit to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester. Minn...
...This is a deliberate misrepresentation intended to injure my friend, Otha Wearin...