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Month More. In Washington peace moves were at a standstill. With Labor's arbitration offer withdrawn, Governor John G. Winant of New Hampshire and his colleagues of the Textile Inquiry Board went into a 48-hour huddle with employers to find on what terms they would submit to arbitration. Governor Winant emerged to announce curtly that the employers would arbitrate on no terms whatsoever. Their position was that Labor was attempting to alter the textile code by force and should be resisted to the bitter end as a matter of principle...
John Gilbert Winant, Republican Governor of New Hampshire, for many years a champion of measures to shorten working hours, set minimum wages, provide workmen's compensation, forbid child labor...
...Harvard ring" is giving way to a "Princeton ring." Ambassador to Italy Breckinridge Long (1904) and Minister to the Baltic States John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1902) head a list of some 55 Princeton consuls and vice consuls. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania (1900), Governor John Gilbert Winant of New Hampshire (1913), and Governor George White of Ohio (1895), lead some 95 Princetonian Congressmen, State legislators, Mayors, bureau chiefs. Princeton Economist Edwin Walter Kemmerer has been money doctor to the world. Thick in the New Deal is James McCauley Landis (1921), Federal Trade Commissioner who is slated to chairman...
...reporting who is whose "heart," what romances have "gone phffft" on "the Stem." Unexpectedly assuming the role of kingmaker, he jolted his listeners in the Granite State by announcing: "The New York Herald Tribune is plotting to boom the Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1936 - Governor John G. Winant of New Hampshire." Last week, while New Hampshire was still buzzing over the Winchell gossip, sombre, spiritual John Gilbert Winant went to Manhattan to address the National Consumers' League. For the second time in 72 hours his name made national news. One of the brave little band of eight...
...Concord and throughout New Hampshire, New York newspapers sold out as quickly as they could be unloaded from icicled baggage cars. Who knew what might happen, now that the radio and the big papers down in New York were talking about John Winant for President? It had been a long time ago, but one New Hampshireman, Franklin Pierce, had made it. In the garland of local journalistic tributes which promptly flourished throughout the state, none was so significant as that of the Manchester Union: "If Mr. Winant aspires to the Presidency, he will discover only friendliness and loyalty at home...