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Despite his New Deal voting record and the fact that Kansas' other Senator is Republican Arthur Capper, George McGill is far from being Kansas' No. 1 Democrat in Washington. He ranks in Federal patronage matters below Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy T. Helvering and Secretary of War Harry Woodring. In social Washington he cuts even less ice. An Elk, a 32nd degree Mason and a Shriner, he spends most of his time at home. His wife, who calls him "Senator," drives the family Buick. Regarded by his friends as a loyal New Dealer and by his enemies...
Several professional politicians were politely cynical over Mr. Roosevelt's moralizing. Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton remembered occasions upon which Mr. Roosevelt had been glad to see parties scrambled: in Minnesota two years ago when the Democratic nominees for Governor and Senator were withdrawn by Jim Farley to let the Farmer-Labor candidates beat the Republicans; in Nebraska two years ago when Mr. Roosevelt, a Democrat, urged the re-election of Senator Norris, an Independent Republican, over a Democrat; in. Michigan, when Republican aid was sought in the primary to nominate Frank Murphy for Governor...
...spite of Mr. Roosevelt's sincere concern for the purity of primaries, citizens were puzzled when they recalled how he had urged, in effect, that the terms "Republican" and "Democrat" be superseded by "Conservative" and "Liberal." In which case party membership as now known means nothing...
...Cambridge, Mass. Democrat Thomas H. Leary, also without his knowledge or consent, was made a candidate for his party's State Convention. Democrat Leary promptly made a campaign speech, "I'm against me." Announced his slogan, "Be wary of Leary...
...Harvard). Tom Dewey last week set out to prove that a great deal of it came from a regular levy on Harlem's numbers bankers. Leaning toward the jury box and talking in his customary confidential tones, Prosecutor Dewey explained to a blue ribbon jury,* consisting of one Democrat, four Republicans, two Independents, five gentlemen who had not bothered to register, the basic facts of the numbers game. In this simple lottery a player can pick any number from 000 to 999 and place a bet from 1? to $5 or more (most bets are only a few cents...