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...will undoubtedly be shifted to one party or the other by deaths or resignations.* To add to the uncertainty of control at least a dozen House and Senate elections will be formally contested after Congress meets, in addition to earlier recounts in the field. In an Indiana Congressional District (8th), for example, a Republican claimed victory by ten votes out of 88,400 while in an Illinois district (24th) a Democrat insisted he had won by 13 votes out of 54.600. The senatorial election in Minne sota hinged on some 8,000 votes out of 565,000. But no such...
Democratic Gains. Whether they eventually won or lost the House, Democrats had achieved sweeping gains in last fortnight's anti-Hoover whirlwind. Subject to official revision, they had taken 52 seats from Republican incumbents, lost just one (the 8th Illinois District). Their tentative 51-seat gain was scattered as follows: Connecticut 2; Illinois 6; Indiana 6; Iowa 1; Kentucky 6; Maryland 2; Missouri 6; Nebraska 2; New Jersey i; New Mexico 1; North Carolina 2; Ohio 6; Oklahoma 2; Oregan 1; Pennsylvania 3; Virginia 2; West Virginia 1; Wisconsin 1. They had routed two Republican Drys (Ohio's Morgan, Illinois...
Wisconsin. In a Republican primary that nominated Philip Fox La Follette for Governor (see p. 20), two Dry House members were turned out by Wets. In the 7th district Gerald Boileau beat Congressman Merlin Hull for renomination while in the 8th district Gardiner Withrow was disposing of Edward Everts Browne, a Congressman since 1913. Renominated for the 19th time in the Racine district was Congressman Henry Allen Cooper, 80, white-bearded, upstanding No. 1 long-service man of the House.? Representative Cooper entered the House in 1893 (53rd Congress). His anti-War stand caused his defeat for the 66th...
...eccentric President Hippolito Irigoyen (nearly 80 years old, though he looks ten years younger). They persuaded him to mobilize the Army & Navy. Machine guns were mounted on the roof of the cigar store over which he prefers to live. Seven warships steamed into the harbor. From Campo Mayo, the 8th Cavalry clattered into town with full equipment to strengthen police reserves. President Hippolito, whose insistence on living in his little cigar store apartment is only one mark of his almost phobic dislike of ostentation, was made to drive to and from the Executive offices, the center of a convoy...
Died. Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland, 50, grandson of the 8th Duke of Argyll, a diehard Conservative in the House of Lords, part owner of the London Morning Post, after long illness; in London...