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...Council caught the whiff and withdrew: Harold Ickes, executive chairman of the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and professions; Judge Learned Hand of the Circuit Court of Appeals; Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin of Manhattan; William L. Batt, wartime vice chairman of WPB; Kansas Republican Senator Arthur Capper...
Into Topeka hurried Republicans to try to do something. They were unable to disregard the voters' growing disgust with the dry law. Yet they hated to go against the earnest advice of smart old Senator Arthur Capper, 81, veteran dry leader, who wanted no mention made of prohibition. So the worried platform makers shadowboxed around the question, promised to submit it to the voters...
...still bars natives of 13 countries and colonies* from citizenship, got ready last week to open the door to immigrants from India. Passed by the House and approved in Senate committee was a bill-sponsored by Representatives Clare Boothe Luce and Emanuel Celler, and Senators Joe Ball and Arthur Capper -permitting a maximum of 100 Indians to enter the country each year as prospective citizens...
Carlson backers include Alf Landon, still a potent figure in Kansas politics, and Senator Arthur Capper, who owns a string of influential Kansas newspapers. Capper, 81 next July, will probably retire when his Senate, term ends in 1949. Washington quidnuncs guessed last week that he was grooming Frank Carlson as his successor...
...elected the following autumn. In the traditionally Republican state of Michigan, Vandenberg has never had much trouble getting reelected, although in the New Deal landslide of 1934 he squeaked through largely because of a Democratic split. Except for California's ailing Hiram Johnson and Kansas' aging Arthur Capper, he is now the ranking Republican in the Senate...