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Early in 1929 John Jacob Raskob, to revive the defeat-shattered Democracy, put Mr. Shouse in charge of the party's Washington headquarters. For three years Democrat Shouse directed an effective drumfire of criticism upon the Republican administration. He, more than any oilier individual, was responsible for the fact that the House went Democratic after the 1930 election. G. O. Partisans blamed him for what they called the ''Smear Hoover" campaign. A Raskobite, he was eclipsed by the rise of the Roosevelt candidacy, denied the permanent chairmanship of the Chicago convention (TIME, July 4 & n). Politically jobless...
Carrying his presidential drive outside his own State for the first time since the Chicago Convention, Governor Roosevelt last week journeyed to Columbus, Ohio, addressed 30,000 jubilant Democrats in the Municipal Stadium. His was a dashing, slashing speech, full of sting for the G. O. P. "The major issue in this campaign is the economic situation." he began and thereupon proceeded to flay President Hoover for his public behavior during the Depression. The Republican Party was blamed for "encouraging a vast speculative boom." Its 1928 promises of prosperity were skillfully bracketed with the actualities. Empty White House prophecies...
Omniscient Senator. That Democrat McAdoo, given a Roosevelt victory in November, would be back in Washington, either in the Senate or out, was an opinion widely held by competent political observers last week. The spectacle of his lean, leathery six-foot-one in the Senate Chamber would be enough by itself to excite headlines. His insistent cackling voice would carry to the Press gallery and beyond...
...Tower Tour. Last week Speaker Garner, before leaving Manhattan for Texas, called on Alfred Emanuel Smith in the Empire State Building, spent a taut hour pleading with him to be a "good Democrat'' and join the campaign. Mr. Smith eyed him narrowly, promised nothing. The Speaker departed without being escorted to the building's 200-ft. tower by its president and shown the view. Mr. Smith only takes friends to the tower. Cartoonist Edward T. Brown of the Herald-Tribune drew a picture of Mr. Smith at the top of the building with the Democratic donkey baying below. The title...
...Governor was about to deprive him of "property" (his job) without "due process of law" (calling witnesses to accuse him and be cross-examined). The Governor's constitutional power of removal was also questioned in this suit, as it was in the one brought fortnight ago by a Bronx Democrat to test the "home-rule" amendment of the State Constitution. Both cases, to be argued this week, were expected to envelop the proceedings in a fog of legal technicalities behind which the Mayor hoped to make his escape...