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...Received from Einar Hoidale, Minnesota Democrat, a contest to the seat now occupied by Republican Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota...
...Voted to unseat Peter Granata, Republican, as Representative of the 8th Illinois District and to seat Stanley H. Kunz, Democrat, in his place. House lineup: Democrats, 221; Republicans, 211; Farmer-Labor, 1; vacancies...
Last week the House of Representatives, hunting "that fellow behind the tree." took its orders from a tall, lanky North Carolina farmer, bald as a buzzard and a short, chunky New York lawyer with a mop of shiny black hair. The first was Robert Lee Doughton, a Democrat who has served 20 years in the House and is a member of the Ways & Means Committee. The second was Fiorello ("Little Flower") Henry La Guardia, an insurgent Republican in the House since the War. Poles apart on politics and personality they were united last week in a great and vehement opposition...
...fought hotly. Publisher Straus was a pacifist, earned the thanks of President Wilson for an anti-War editorial. But he went to War himself. Serious, sardonic, rather shy, today he says: 'T was just as bad a lunatic as anyone." In 1921 Nathan Straus Jr., a liberal, almost Socialistic Democrat, was elected to the New York State Senate, storming Manhattan's "Silk Stocking District" during a Republican landslide. He kept his seat until 1926. He has long been in the crockery business. His company, Nathan Straus & Sons Inc., is the biggest U. S. maker of hotel & restaurant equipment...
Results of the poll, four years ago, gave Hoover a clear margin of superiority with Smith, Democrat, winning the second largest number of votes