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Only three years ago "Jim" Curley was a sadly neglected Democrat. In spite of having been for Roosevelt long before Chicago, in spite of making friends with the President's ambitious son James, he had not been rewarded with the job he coveted, Ambassador to Italy. All he had been offered was Minister to Poland, at which he stuck up his Irish nose. In fact the New Deal showed distinct signs of coolness toward the three-times Mayor of Boston. Therefore Mr. Curley decided to show them. In 1934 he campaigned his way into the governorship, and promptly took...
...reporter for the Boston Transcript, went to City Hall where he heard the Mayor rip into "that old son-of-a-gun," Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Last week the same youngster, grandson of the late great Senator from Massachusetts, had just polled 100,000 more votes than Democrat Curley to win the Republican nomination for the same Senate seat...
There were no bank runs in Allentown next business day, but last week the Republican National Committee received a letter for Nominee Knox from Pennsylvania's Secretary of Banking Luther A. Harr. After citing the State's law against financial slander, Secretary Harr, a Democrat in a Democratic State Administration, declared: "Your statement is so sweeping as to include every bank and savings institution in the State, but I will not stand on technicalities. If you have information that one bank or savings institution in this State is unsafe, I am willing to accept that as sufficient justification...
...into their expected lead, held it throughout. But that lead was not the 50,000-to-100,000 triumph which Chairman Hamilton had predicted. When all but three of the State's 633 precincts had reported, the biggest GOP winner was Secretary of State Lewis O. Barrows, leading Democrat Dubord for the Governorship by 38,000 votes. Republican Congressional candidates were in the clear by 17,000 to 20,000 votes. But in Maine's prime race, Republican Senator White had beaten Democratic Governor Brann by a bare 4,000 plurality...
Campaigning with Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle in Allen- town, Democrat Jack Dempsey busily scribbled autographs, asked one eager moppet: "And don't you want the Governor's signature too?" Retorted the moppet: "Naw, I only want yours...