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Wayne Williams, Denver Democrat, onetime Attorney-General of Colorado. Reason: Prohibition...
Kansas. Clyde Martin Reed, Republican, publisher, railroad rate expert, and Chauncey B. Little, Democrat, lawyer, were nominated for Governor...
...Peek," of course, was George Nelson Peek, the Democrat-Republican from Illinois who used to make plows at Moline, Ill.; who served Woodrow Wilson on the War Industries Board; who became chairman of the Committee of Twenty-two organized several years ago by Governor Hammill (Republican) of Iowa† and other Farmers' Friends; and who lobbied the McNary-Haugen Bill (first version) through Congress from a desk in Vice President Dawes' ante-room...
...Smith-Peek conference and the Lowden surmise having passed into Democratic annals, Chairman Raskob pondered the name of B. F. Yoakum. A long letter bearing that signature had followed Mr. Peek into Democratic headquarters. Benjamin F. Yoakum is a Democrat, a retired railroad executive* who developed the southwest's farming much as the late James J. Hill developed the northwest's. In his Manhattan office, he has been spending recent years offering sane and respected solutions of economic problems. Six years ago he suggested a plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad...
...Border, bitter battlegrounds of national elections, got its first smell of this year's political powder last week. Congressional primaries were held in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri. Wiseacres tried to foretell the number of Smith and Hoover votes the three states contain by comparing, this way and that, the democratic and republican votes cast. But only one thing of immediate significance occurred. That was in Tennessee, where Finis James Garrett, for 23 years a member of the House, and since 1923 the House's boss Democrat, tried to get himself nominated for the seat in the Senate which...