Word: wearin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maine's Ralph O. Brewster; Massachusetts' Allen T. Treadway; Michigan's Clare E. Hoffman. House As of course included such stalwart laborites as-Texas' Maverick, California's Voorhis, Wisconsin's Boileau, Illinois' Kent Keller, Iowa's and Harry Hopkins' Otha Wearin, who was recently defeated for the Democratic Senatorial nomination. Also blessed by the League was Maryland's Representative David J. Lewis, who hopes to replace D-Man Millard Tydings...
...Iowa case, Senator Herring was for Senator Gillette's renomination against Mr. Wearin. In Sioux City, where there were 4,000 WPA workers, Mr. Wearin got only about 300 votes...
...marked "Donated by a friend of Senator Alben W. Barkley" and given away near a WPA depot in Kentucky, were a campaign come-on fostered by WPA. Also he could deny any great consequences issuing from his most publicized political acts so far this year: plumping for Otha D. Wearin's nomination for the Senate in Iowa, and whitewashing the WPA as a whole in Kentucky. Mr. Hopkins in Washington is much further removed politically from State Administrator Keller in Iowa and State Administrator Goodman in Kentucky than are Senators Herring of Iowa and Barkley of Kentucky, respectively...
...party in Iowa's Senatorial primary (TIME, June 13). Last week Franklin Roosevelt picked up the pieces and prepared for more rough political weather. He was at pains to soothe hurt feelings by inviting Senator Gillette to Sunday luncheon. Son James, who had helped "My Friend Otha Wearin," Gillette's opponent, wrote the Senator a nice note...
...same time the President: 1) announced that he thought WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins had been well within his rights when he applauded the candidacy of Otha Wearin, 2) discouraged the movement in the Senate to investigate WPA's political practices, 3) sent a note to Minnesota's WPAdministrator, Victor Christgau...