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...primary vote was a conservative headache to Franklin Roosevelt (see above). California's was a radical stomachache. There, despite his personal blessing, his old friend, Senator William Gibbs McAdoo-who served with him under Woodrow Wilson-was last week snowed under by more than 100,000 votes. That blizzard was not directly caused by the fact that during the campaign Mr. McAdoo was called too conservative, too old (74), a former Klansman (untrue). The reason that Oldster McAdoo failed of renomination was-so far as hard-headed politicians could tell - principally one plank in his opponent's platform...
...Idaho's Senator Pope (New Dealer), beaten for renomination by Representative D. Worth Clark and a last-minute blizzard of religious pamphlets, appeared in Hyde Park last week seeking Administration backing to run as an independent in November. Seeking the same thing: Representative-reject Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Texas...
...Amid a blizzard of protesting telegrams from anti-Earle Pennsylvanians, through House and Senate last week were quickly steamrollered four Earle bills: 1) reserving to the House prior right to investigate State officers for impeachable offenses; 2) enabling the Attorney General to supersede any local prosecutor in any such trial in the courts; 3) suspending the Dauphin County Grand Jury's investigation; 4) creating a House committee to investigate Mr. Earle & friends, with power to jail reluctant witnesses...
...there were some 5,000 more delegates scheduled to perform before the Congress adjourns April 19. Hopeful of witnessing a perfect game, or at least seeing some fancy pin-toppling, 5,000 Chicagoans one night last week braved an April blizzard to watch the kegling of the local Birk Brothers (Superb Beer) quintet, which had won almost every tournament in the Midwest this year. Birk Brothers had won the A.B.C. title once-in 1917, with the same lead-off man, Policeman George Geiser, and the same anchor man, Lawyer Jules Lellinger, both of whom have been bowling for Superb Beer...
Seven years ago, Bryan Untiedt, 12, became a U. S. celebrity when, by building a fire and giving up his own clothes, he helped save 14 children from freezing in a school bus stranded in a blizzard near Towner, Colo. Afterwards he visited Herbert Hoover at the White House, told the press he hoped to go to West Point...