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...Curtis. . . . Should Mr. Hoover be elected there is no chance now in sight that he will command a working majority in either branch of Congress. . . . The country will obtain a more coherent government from a Demo-cratic Congress led by Mr. Roosevelt than from a Democratic Congress in perpetual deadlock with Mr. Hoover...
...Speaker Garner as a presidential winner last spring, Mr. McAdoo was his first and only important recruit. Mr. Hearst was as much responsible for the shift play at Chicago resulting in the Roosevelt nomination as Mr. McAdoo. They both feared and hated internationally-minded Newton Diehl Baker as a deadlock candidate. Californians were not surprised this month when five Hearstpapers (Los Angeles Examiner and Herald & Express, San Francisco Examiner and Call and Oakland Post-Enquirer) began puffing the McAdoo Senatorial candidacy in the highly colored Hearst news columns. According to this segment of the Press, everything Mr. McAdoo said...
Home Loans. What held the Congress in late session was a deadlock on the Home Loan Bank bill, last item on President Hoover's general relief program. Both houses were agreed upon a system of eight to twelve regional banks, backed by $125,000,000 from the Treasury, at which savings banks, building & loan associations and the like could discount their first mortgages up to $10,000 on home property valued at $20,000 or more. But the Senate had amended this bill with a currency expansion scheme of Virginia's Glass, to let national banks issue their...
...Stick to Your Guns." The long night session ending in three deadlock ballots, Governor Roosevelt followed intently by air. When the voting started after daybreak he took a sheet of paper and kept tally on his knee. When the third vote failed to produce a nominee, he sent a sizzling telegram to Chicago...
...into being a Cabinet with no parliamentary majority, headed by Chancellor Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen (TIME, June 13). On July 31 Germans will elect a new Reichstag, chances being that the Fascists will emerge as the largest party but without a majority. In that unsatisfactory event the political deadlock would be so complete that a coup d'état looms distinctly possible. Last week every faction-Monarchist, Fascist, Socialist, Communist-was watching cat-like for a chance to seize power by means fair or foul...