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...confused with Illinois' other Congressman Hull - Morton Denison Hull of Chicago, Harvard graduate, lawyer, president of Raymond Concrete Pile Co.; nor with Congress man Cordell Hull, Democrat, of Carthage, Tenn...
What augurs best for Mayor Walker as a candidate to succeed himself is the almost complete absence of a cohesive and well-directed Opposition. New York City Republicans are at a loss for a suitable nominee, are even ready.to fuse with independent Democrats if they have a man to offer. The only Democrat who stands forth seems to be John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, twice Mayor before Walker. Republicans were last week actually, quite seriously considering allegiance to Hylan, whose vote-following is unquestionably larger than the outstanding Republican possibility, short, swart Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia...
...hospital bed in Baltimore. The administration of the oath by Clerk Crockett made him eligible to cast his vote for the debenture plan. That made 47 to 47 in the informal poll, resting the issue with Louisiana's Broussard, the undecided Senator, a Democrat. "Nose-Holding." Southern Democrats could give the condition of the cotton planters as their reason for voting an unDemocratic subsidy, which is what the debenture plan amounts to. But Northern, city Democrats could give as their only reason a partisan desire to put President Hoover in a hole. As in 1924, they found themselves playing...
...great a man, as well as Democrat, is Jouett Shouse, that to him is given major credit for inducing the G. O. P. to go to his city for its convention last year. Lawyer, farmer, banker, son of a Kentucky clergyman (Protestant), strong of mind, bold of speech, he will now take prominent place on the political battlements of the capital. Briefly, his duty will be to eye the Hoover administration; to look for, mark, proclaim its errors; to direct against it the archery of partisan criticism until next election. Chairman Raskob prepared to withdraw into the Democracy...
...Manhattan publisher demands. Some of the news stories are less news than story and are the more pleasing to an articulate citizen of Marion: "As for town and county news, we have usually heard it at the post office or drug-store two or three days before the Marion Democrat comes out. That, of course, adds to interest in the Democrat, as everybody wants to see how the thing looks in print...