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...Ohio was looking forward to one of the liveliest gubernatorial battles of the year. At the Jackson Day dinner in Columbus, Democratic National Committeeman Charles Sawyer jarred many a diner by delivering a harangue against the "corruption and graft rampant" during the two administrations of Democratic Governor Martin Luther Davey. Practical Committeeman Sawyer's unsurprising solution was to enter the gubernatorial primary himself. Tree-Surgeon Davey, who once enjoyed a reputation as a champion of Labor, prejudiced it when he helped break the strike in Little Steel last summer, has since lost it altogether by calling out the militia...
University fellowships to: Harold W. Davey 2G, of Syracuse, New York; Guy H. Dodge 4G, of East Cleveland, Ohio; Henry F. May, Jr. 1G, of Berkeley, Californio; Frederic C. Murphy 2G, of Berlin, New Hampshire; and David McC. Wright 1G, of Savannah, Georgia...
...Another Sit-Down in the rubber industry last week, protesting layoffs in three Goodyear Tire & Rubber plants in Akron, ended abruptly when Ohio's quick-triggered Governor Davey threatened to mobilize his militia...
...missing from the Lewis speech was any reference to Steelman Tom Girdler, on whom Mr. Lewis usually lavishes his fine talent for invective. Reason: on the advice of Columbia Broadcasting lawyers he deleted his sulphurous remarks about Mr. Girdler.* Also toned down were some of the phrases about Governor Davey, whose militiamen broke the strike in Ohio. Roared Labor Lion Lewis: "The steel puppet, Davey, is still Governor of Ohio, but not for long. I think, not for long! ... No tin hat brigade of goosestepping vigilantes or bible-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation-paid scoundrels will prevent the onward...
...Post Office Clerks holds a convention to discuss ways & means of solving the greatest human problem: how to get more money for less work. Next week the union will convene in Toledo, Ohio. Present, besides delegates from 2,600 locals, will be Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, Governors Davey of Ohio and Murphy of Michigan. Dignitaries though they are, it is doubtful whether they will be able to steal the limelight from a mongrel dog, 40 years dead...