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...goes Maine, so goes the Union," is a venerable political saw, cherished and valueless. Nevertheless after Maine's Congressional and gubernatorial election this week, Democrats everywhere had cause to whoop gaily. Normally Maine is Republican by 25,000 votes or more. Since the Civil War only two Democratic governors have been elected, in 1880 and in 1914. This week, with a close, heavy vote, the Democrats sent in a governor and two out of three Congressmen...
Following a conference with Governor Pinchot's secretary at the Butler home in Newtown Square, "Old Gimlet Eye" let out his first war whoop...
...sweetening," each $1,000 bond has a warrant entitling the owner to buy, from 1933-48, ten shares of common at $5 (current prices: $4). The bonds will be offered to A. G. & E. stockholders and bondholders. And this final detail caused the greatest part of Wall Street's whoop. For Mr. Hopson plans to go farther than anti-hoarding Col. Frank Knox with his baby bonds of $50 denomination. The A. G. & E. bonds, which can be paid for in three instalments, will be issued in denominations as low as $10, outdoing the babies of baby-bonds...
...thousand other Oklahomans last week packed into Oklahoma City's Shrine Temple as delegates to the Democratic State convention. And they thought differently. With one unanimous whoop they acclaimed Governor Murray as their candidate for President, pledged him Oklahoma's 22 delegates to the Chicago Convention. Declared Governor Murray: "I stand in awe of the responsibility of the Presidency but I will undertake it. ... I am willing to shorten my life, perhaps lose it, in an effort to stem the powers now crushing the American people. . . . No man is fit to be President who hasn't worked...
...took Booth to achieve the status of a No. i college football hero. But now his fame and popularity are such that even the South Boston "townies," whose custom it has long been to cheer for Harvard's opponents, fill the bowl end of Soldiers Field to whoop for Harvard. Even Boston and Cambridge police are on Harvard's side...