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...Farley, whose 1940 break with the President is now final and irretrievable, was not riding trains out of love for travel or banquet chicken. In Omaha he conferred with practically every important Nebraska Democrat; at a political dinner he got in a sharp dig at appointment of Republicans to war agency jobs (a sore spot with many a Democratic veteran). In St. Louis he talked to ex-Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann and sidekick Robert Hannegan, whose local machine used to be one of the slickest in the party...
Thus Michigan voters were left to decide the election on strictly partisan lines: more than in any other State the result depended on what-in each voter's mind-the labels Republican and Democrat stood for. C.I.O.'s Michigan political machine, strongest in the organization, worked mightily for the Democrats (though some of its leaders personally preferred Kelly). Michigan's traditional G.O.P. strength worked in favor of Ferguson and Kelly...
...Democrat with a rugged individualist's distrust of the New Deal: he opposed the Third Term as a delegate to the 1940 Chicago convention, became a rabid Democrat-for-Willkie, was drafted by the Republicans this year when their original candidate died. Says Individualist Moore: "I consider money a tool with which to work. It's a responsibility and I've used it to give employment to thousands of men. ... I want to use my money in my own business to help build my country. That's my religion...
...Democrats held eleven House seats, Republicans tied them by gaining two (one is still to be decided by absentee ballots). The Olson defeat left able, chunky Robert Walker Kenny, 41, prosperous Los Angeles lawyer, national president of the Lawyers Guild, as the top Democrat in the State. Popular Bob Kenny, only Democrat elected to an important State office, succeeds Earl Warren as Attorney General. Democrats look to him to lead their Party's resurgence...
Verbose Matt Neely was a Senator in 1940, with two years to go, when he saw his political machine was beginning to cough and fall apart. So he went home to run for Governor against a Democrat with a comic-book name: H. Guy Kump. He won. Out of State jobs went Kump followers, in went Neely men. This year, satisfied, Matt Neely ran again for Senator...