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Until 1931 Dick Kleberg handled his job from his office in Corpus Christi, with occasional visits to the legislature. But in that year the 14th District's Republican Congressman died and Dick Kleberg, a Democrat, decided to take the job. Since Mexicans liked his fluent Spanish and to solid citizens a Kleberg was a Kleberg, he had little trouble. This year he won his fifth nomination with practiced ease over a Townsend Planner and a crusading newspaperman who criticized him as a scion of autocracy. He did not deign to mention either of them...
Ever since the Purge failed and showed Democratic Senators that it is safe to have minds of their own, a paramount question has been: will non-New Deal Democrats attempt to unhorse Kentucky's plodding, obedient "Dear Alben" Barkley as Majority Leader? To do so would in effect amount to purging the Senate of Roosevelt leadership. Last week, in an otherwise unimportant newspaper spat between Montana's utterly independent Democrat Burton K. Wheeler and New Jersey's obedient Democrat William Smathers, came an answer. Declaring that there would be no attempted Barkley ouster, Mr. Wheeler said...
This posed a pretty problem for campaigning Democratic Governor Lehman. With Racket Buster Dewey, his Republican opponent, grinning down from an anticorruption platform, Mr. Lehman had to step fast. He also had to step delicately, because although he had twice before superseded troublesome Democrat Geoghan with special prosecutors, he refused to remove him from office at the request of a special grand jury two years ago. Last week, after hearing both Mr. Geoghan and Mr. Herlands present their cases, Governor Lehman announced that Mr. Geoghan would be superseded again, delayed naming a special prosecutor to investigate Mr. Geoghan and other...
...courage," applauded Mayor LaGuardia, and other New Yorkers agreed. For besides being a good Democrat, William Francis Xavier Geoghan is a good Roman Catholic, a fact important to Governor Lehman last week. Mr. Lehman was persuaded to run this year only on condition that his legal Man Friday, 35-year-old former Supreme Court Justice Charles Poletti, share his responsibilities as Lieutenant Governor. This move angered Roman Catholics and conservatives because it entailed the dropping of Catholic Lieut. Governor M. William Bray in favor of American Laborite Poletti, who is neither. To appease Catholics, the Lehman forces pointed to renominated...
...over such a man-a Sudeten German Social Democrat-who stepped in front of my car," radioed John T. Whitaker of the Chicago Daily News from Prague. "His head was badly cut, but when I insisted not only on taking him to a hospital, but in giving the police a full record of the accident, he pleaded 'the police will be compelled to send me back and I will be beaten to death.' He explained, this mild, reasonable little Socialist, that the Czech authorities had no choice. 'If too many Sudeten German refugees collected in Prague, Hitler...