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James M. Curley, Democrat. Experience: "I have held public office during the greater part of the past 35 years." Ten years in the city government of Boston, two years a member of State Legislature, four years as Member of Congress, twelve years as Mayor of the city of Boston. Obviously adequate...
James Michael Curley, the "Peoples' Choice," jovially asserted in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday that "a poll taken by the students of Harvard University would not differ in any respect so far as a Democrat is concerned from a similar poll conducted by the Ward 17 Tammany Club so far as a Republican would be concerned. It does not require either the gift of prophecy or occultism to determine very definitely the result of such a poll...
...deliberate ambiguity about his money plans did not encourage supersensitive businessmen, whose apprehensions he had spent the last three weeks trying to assuage through quiet missionary work among bigwig White House visitors. That very day a White House guest had been Morgan Partner Russell Cornell Leffingwell, a potent Democrat and Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Twenty-four hours later, Business was given something to get really jittery about...
...would not have survived a season had it not also made a strong appeal to California's desperate 425,000 unemployed and their 800,000 dependents. EPIC clubs sprang up overnight until by last week they numbered 1,000. And Upton Sinclair found himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. "I found I was not getting anywhere as a Socialist," explained he, "and so I decided to try to make progress with one of the two old parties." The regular Democratic machine pooh-poohed Candidate Sinclair as a theoretical novice. Theoretical he was, but no novice...
Stopping off in Manhattan, he triumphantly appeared at the office of his new political chief, No. 1 Democrat James Aloysius Farley. Mr. Farley told him to call him "Jim." Then down to Washington marched Upton Sinclair to be welcomed by such socially-minded members of the White House inner circle as Harry Hopkins and Secretary Wallace...