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Equally significant was the Republican minority's strategy. Nine of the ten G. 0. P. Ways & Means committeemen abstained from voting-but not because they opposed new taxes. The Republicans thought the House should go much further in overhauling and broadening the tax structure. Democrat Doughton agreed in principle, promised to attempt a major overhaul (including additional taxes on excess Defense profits) at the next session of Congress...
...Total Who's: 31.752. Biggest Who (since the deaths of Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo and Lawyer Samuel Unter-myer): Nicholas Murray Butler, 119 lines, Newcomers: Shirley Temple ("decorations awarded from eight States"), Deanna Durbin ("singer, actress"), Frank Buck ("interested in wild animals"). Definitely Republican: Wendell Willkie, formerly a Democrat. First time in 14 years: Pronouncing dictionary of difficult names. Revived: Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan and president of the American Friends of France, inexplicably listed in the 1938-39 volume as having died...
...would go to the convention with more delegates than anyone else; 2) neither would have enough to win on the first ballot. Plentiful were the guesses that a dark horse might romp away with the nomination. The most rambunctious dark horse, getting more rambunctious daily, was Wendell Willkie, onetime Democrat...
...poll was run in such a way that all voters, no matter what their party, designated their choice for the nominee of both the Republican and the Democratic parties. Then they were asked to designate their preference between the two men they had nominated. 52 percent of the voters voted Democrat; 48 percent favored the Republicans...
South Dakota. In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt beat Herbert Hoover in South Dakota by 84,000 votes, beat Landon in 1936 by 34,000 votes. In 1938 Republican Harlan J. Bushfield squeakily won the Governorship from Democrat Oscar Fosheim. Last week Governor Bushfield, up for renomination, pulled twice the Democratic total...