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Last week President Hoover made his fourth and last appointment to the directorate of his Reconstruction Finance Corp. By law his choice had to be a Democrat, by preference a Westerner. Appointee was Judge Wilson McCarthy of Salt Lake City, who had the backing of Utah's Democratic Senator King and Republican Senator Smoot. Cattleman, banker, lawyer, Director McCarthy was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention where he boosted the Brown Derby...
...chanted that solution for rural Depression as he boarded a train for New York. Last week President Hoover appointed this president of the Arkansas Power & Light Co., the Mississippi Power & Light Co., the Louisiana Power & Light Co. and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway to be one of the three Democratic directors of the potent Reconstruction Finance Corp. Aside from his demonstrated ability, Director Couch could thank for his appointment: 1) his personal friendship with President Hoover whom he helped out of a political hole during Arkansas' dark drought days in 1930; 2) his professional and friendly relations with Arkansas...
Young Mr. Roosevelt failed his final examinations at Columbia Law School, but managed to pass his New York bar examination in 1907. Three years later he ran as a Democrat for the State Senate in the Hyde Park district. Because the 26th district had, with one exception, been doggedly Republican since the Civil War, he appeared to have a poor chance of winning. This chance seemed to be materially reduced when he set out to stump his rural constituency in a chicken-killing, dust-raising automobile. But the farmers liked his engaging smile, his direct easy way of talking...
...machine on the election to the U. S. Senate of William ("Blue-Eyed Billy") Sheehan, leader of Buffalo's Democracy. For weeks New York's legislative affairs were at a standstill but Mr. Sheehan was beaten and Mr. Roosevelt emerged from the fray as an insurgent anti-Tammany Democrat...
Around these two points of view rotates a nation-wide political argument. It is far from academic because the Democrat nominated by his party has a better than even chance of becoming President on March...