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...national House of Representatives. Opposed to a 2½% levy on manufacturers in the budget-balancing revenue bill, this bloc wrenched the legislation away from its sponsors and proceeded to mangle it almost beyond recognition. Leaders of the revolt were insurgent Republican LaGuardia of New York and Democrat Doughton of North Carolina. Arraying mass against class, they argued that the sales tax raising $595,000,000 of the bill's $1,096,000,000 was an unfair impost upon poor people, that wealth should be conscripted to balance the budget...
...Decided that Democrat Stanley H. Kunz was entitled to the House seat of the 8th Illinois district now occupied by Republican Peter C. Granata...
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke journeyed to Wooster, Ohio, last week and told the Young Men's Republican Club: "The present Congress opened with loud yells for leadership emanating from the Democratic side. The President has supplied so much leadership that our friends of the opposition are just a little bit dizzy. . . . His program for economic reconstruction is a triumph. . . . Democratic members are entitled to full credit for their share in the proceedings . . . but, had they flouted his policies and presented no program of their own, they would have received as violent a rebuke...
...nearly three months the homely authority of John Nance ("Jack") Garner has kept the Democratic House of Representatives trotting along peacefully behind President Hoover's relief measures. Many a fighting Democrat was irked at this political docility. The President's reorganization proposal came as a signal for the House to break and run on its own. Democratic leaders got hold of advance copies of the President's message, announced, just one day before its reading in the House, their own plans for a survey of the executive Government to effect economies. When grizzled old Speaker Garner officially...
...straight political fight, with only two names on the short ballot and no side issues. Boss Maschke's Republicans ran Daniel Edgar Morgan, an honest, able administrator who succeeded William Rowland Hopkins as city manager in 1930. The Democratic candidate was 38-year-old Ray T. Miller, brisk, red-faced Cuyahoga County prosecutor. At Notre Dame Ray Miller played one end on the football team in 1913 while Knute Rockne was playing the other. His brother, Don Miller, was one of the "Four Horsemen" in Notre Dame's famed 1924 backfield. In his campaign Democrat Miller ignored Republican...