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HOLC got off to a slow, clumsy start because President Roosevelt appointed a "lame duck" Congressman from South Carolina named William Francis Stevenson as its chairman. Democrat Stevenson apparently was more interested in giving his relatives and friends jobs in the new Government agency than he was in getting started with mortgage relief. Another cause of initial delay was that mortgage holders were reluctant to swap their liens for HOLC bonds because the bonds were guaranteed by the Government only as to interest. Therefore Congress at its last session guaranteed them as to principal as well. Chairman Stevenson was replaced...
...Pendergast and his machine went out to show what they could do. As it happened their efforts were not really necessary. St. Louis, normally Republican, gave Democrat Truman a 50,000 majority; other sections of the State added another 75,000. According to census figures 62½% of Missouri's population is old enough to vote and Kansas City has about 400,000 inhabitants. Kansas City turned up with 248,000 registered voters-62% of its total population. A few more thousands on the voting lists and it would have looked as if something was crooked. On election...
Never in history have Southern Democrats had to open ranks to admit a blackamoor into the party's Congressional organization. Since Democrat Mitchell's vote will count as much as anyone's in the election of a Democratic Speaker, he will be offered committee assignments, invited to party caucuses. Nothing can prevent his occupying a suite in the House Office Building along with white Representatives from Georgia and Alabama. He is entitled to eat with them in the House Restaurant, sit beside them on the House floor...
...Crown Point, Ind., from whose jail Desperado Dillinger walked out last March with the help of a wooden pistol, Democrat Carroll Holley was running to succeed as sheriff his aunt Lillian Holley who had been unable to keep her most famed prisoner (TIME, March...
...President Roosevelt should decide that no Democrat can control prices, if he should give that job to a Republican especially close to Herbert Hoover, then the New Deal would have sunk as low as Adolf Hitler felt obliged to stoop last week...