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...Democrat Michelson was thus completing the cycle from high-powered mud slinging as an "out" in 1932 to embarrassed fog-dispelling as an "in" in 1938, the cycle was officially recognized by the Republican National Committee. Appointed Republican publicity director was short, burly, bristle-lipped Columnist Franklyn Waltman of the Washington Post, who lost his early enthusiasm for the Roosevelt Administration over the Court...
...Republicans, with 91 delegates, elected as President Republican Chief Judge Frederick Evan Crane of the State Court of Appeals. To strike the proper non-partisan keynote, the convention then unanimously elected as Honorary President happy Democrat Alfred Emanuel Smith, a veteran of the 1915 convention. After a learned speech by President Crane on the virtues of democracy, the delegates, who will receive a $2,500 salary for their streamlining and hope to finish it by summer, recessed. Major streamlines suggested: a unicameral Legislature; replacing the present Department of Law under an elected Attorney-General by a department of justice under...
...Democrat Kennedy then gave out a letter in which he had turned down an unnamed U. S. woman's application forwarded by Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. "For many years this Embassy has had the privilege of presenting between 20 and 30 American ladies each year, and the Court is still disposed to receive as many American ladies as in the past," wrote Ambassador Kennedy. "The number of American ladies presented, however, has on the average been twice as great as the number of ladies presented by all other diplomatic missions put together. . . . I cannot see that...
...early life Walt Whitman was a conventional poet of modest gifts, a Brooklyn editor, author of a dull temperance novel, a Democrat, a radical. In the Civil War, after years of drifting, he found himself, and for a brief period became the great spokesman for the spirit of radical humanitarianism. But the exact steps of his transformation are not known and even the biographical details of his life are confused, as Whitman apparently intended they should...
Although Boss Pendergast announced after the 1936 campaign that active management of his machine would thenceforth rest in the hands of Nephew James Michael Pendergast, he has by no means relinquished his duties as policy maker. Day after last week's election, Democrat Pendergast, after exclaiming that "this is a better tonic than a carload of medicine," indicated that he might be a more stub born obstacle to Democrats Clark and Roosevelt than optimists might think. Having invited reporters into his office for one of his rare interviews, the old boss announced that he was going on the warpath...