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That, in effect, is the way it began, four weeks ago. Out of the telephone conversation a meeting was arranged in Manhattan. And out of the meeting last week came a plan by which Studebaker, subject to the formality of a stockholders' ballot, will acquire White Motor...
...their run-off primary for Governor last week, a million Texas Democrats divided almost evenly between rich, rotund Ross Shaw Sterling, incumbent, and lean, homely Miriam Amanda (''Ma'') Ferguson, onetime Governor. As the ballot count slowly progressed Governor Sterling and Mrs. Ferguson seesawed back & forth with sometimes only a few hundred votes separating them. When Governor Sterling's lead moved above 3,000. Jim Ferguson, whose impeachment and removal as Governor put his wife into politics and office, began to demand a recount...
Manager v. Swinger. California has had no Democratic Senator since James Duval Phelan's term expired in 1921. On the Aug. 30 primary ballot are six names: Parson M. Abbott, Maurice James McCarthy, Annie Riley Hale, Robert Pierce Shuler, Justus S. Wardell, William Gibbs McAdoo. Abbott and McCarthy are irreconcilable supporters of Alfred Emanuel Smith who still think this is 1928. The candidacy of Mrs. Hale (Colyumist Heywood Broun's mother-in-law) is not taken seriously. ''Bob" Shuler, a radio revivalist, is a political maverick who is also running in the Republican primary. The real race appeared...
Missouri, with its House seats cut from 16 to 13 by 1930 Reapportionment, failed to redistrict itself. Hence all its Representatives last week had to be nominated at large, the highest 13 on each party ticket qualifying for the November election. An enormous State-wide ballot resulted when 56 Democrats, 30 Republicans presented themselves for House nominations. In the confusion five sitting Democrats were jostled back to private life...
Kansas. To get Vice President Curtis from Los Angeles to his Topeka home in time to vote, a fast Santa Fe train was rerouted through Kansas. Even so the Vice President had to get off at Dodge City and use an absentee ballot...