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...72nd Congress should be unexpectedly called into special session next week, the Senate as well as the House would be Democratic. On paper the Republicans lost control of the upper body last week when Colorado's Governor Adams appointed Democrat Walter Walker, newspaper publisher (Grand Junction Sentinel) to the vacancy caused by the death of Republican Senator Charles Winfield Waterman. Present Senate lineup: Democrats, 48; Republicans, 47; Farmer Laborite, I. Enveloped in legal uncertainty was the question of whether Senator-designate Walker would take his seat Dec. 5 or whether Colorado would elect a short-term Senator in November...
Simultaneously Republican Boss Sam Koenig assembled his docile cohorts at the National Republican Club to make up a Manhattan-Bronx judicial ticket. Senator Hofstadter was nominated with a whoop ?and so was young Democrat Steuer. Thus effectively closed to New York voters was all choice between bench candidates...
...Vincent McKee in city hall. In a month bus}7, honest, economizing Acting Mayor McKee had gained immense popularity. He wanted to stay in office. But Tammany would have none of him because his economy campaign pinched jobholders severely. Last week there was talk that Mr. McKee, a Bronx Democrat independent of Tammany, might head an independent ticket against Tammany's Walker...
...Author- Midwest Jeffersonian Democrat, with little sympathy for Adams' politics, Biographer Clark remarks: "He was such an interesting old coot I had a fine time writing his life" (TIME, Jan. 25). He reports that there have been fewer biographies of Adams "than of almost any great American." Disregarding James Truslow Adams' The Adams Family (TIME, June 16, 1930), of which he made no mention in his bibliography, he says his is the first biography of John Quincy Adams in 50 years...
...initiation of the American Legion in Paris shortly after the Armistice. Back in St. Louis he practiced law, married, became the father of three sons. This year he turned seriously to elective politics by declaring for the U. S. Senate. White-crested James A. Reed, great Missouri Democrat, threw the mantle of leadership around Candidate Clark's hefty shoulders, helped secure his nomination in the August primary. Strong for Repeal, Nominee Clark reinserted the magic word Champ into his name for campaign purposes...