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Balked by Congress in his effort to name a mainland Democrat to a $10,000-a-year job, the President was in no hurry to appoint a new Governor. Not until he had been in office nearly a year did he finally pick a successor to Lawrence McCully Judd, descendant of a Yankee medical missionary who went to the Sandwich Islands a century ago. Then he appointed the next best thing to the kind of man he originally wanted?a Democrat who had lived on the islands only 17 years...
...portly little publisher-politician from Georgia went about the country handing the Solid South to Franklin D. Roosevelt. His name was Clark Howell and his paper the Atlanta Constitution. In 1933 President Roosevelt offered Democrat Howell a fat diplomatic post which he declined on the ground he could serve party & nation better at home. Some of his friends said that the Constitution's publisher did not feel that his deflated pocketbook could afford the personal outlay required by such foreign service. Last week Mr. Howell changed his mind and decided to represent the U. S. abroad this summer, at Government...
Next morning the Houston crossed the 40 miles of open sea to St. Croix, where guest and hosts motored across the island, visited abandoned rum distilleries, more subsistence homesteads. Only untoward event was a parade in Christiansted, staged by the local Democratic Club. where marchers carried banners demanding the removal of Governor Pearson, the appointment of a Democrat. His fondness unshaken, the President bade the Governor a cordial farewell. The Houston, with the two destroyers in her wake, streaked away once more over the blue waters, cutting a long diagonal across the Caribbean, toward Cartagena, Colombia...
...Sedalia, Mo. Democrat & Capital: WANTED-RAIN Good drenching rain desired; showers accepted. Come on. rain! Badly needed to aid growing crops and harvesting, fill reservoirs and bring prosperity to Pettis County. To be delivered throughout entire Pettis County if possible between today and midnight. July 4, 1934. Thirteen merchants contributed to purchase the four-column display space. On July 4 rain fell...
Died. Franklin MacVeagh, 94, onetime (1909-13) Secretary of the Treasury, longtime wholesale grocer, great-uncle of U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Farm-born, Yale-bred, he entered politics as a Democrat, could not stomach the Bryan Silver Policy, turned Republican, later disturbed Republicans by urging lower tariffs. In 1928 he supported the Smith candidacy...