Word: election
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Candidate Haucke is a fine looking chap, but it would have been more appropriate to have shown Harry Woodring's picture over the caption "Governor-elect of Kansas...
Herewith is Subscriber Blake's photograph. Governor-elect Harry Woodring. first Democrat to win the governorship in Kansas since 1922, was born in Elk City in 1889. Only boy in a family of several girls, he early learned crocheting, a feat much stressed by his political opponents in the recent campaign. However, his pop corn venture, his banking success, his Tank Corps experience proved him man enough to be elected State head of the American Legion. Thus both he and Republican Frank ("Chief") Haucke, another onetime State Legion head, gained local prominence. Gubernatorial Candi date Woodring defeated Candidate Haucke...
...Ewald case. To assist in the broader investigation, the Citizen's Union raised $13,000. By last week this fund had been virtually exhausted. And Attorney General Ward goes out of office Jan. 1. Nevertheless, Prosecutor Todd announced he would continue his work under Attorney General-elect John J. Bennett Jr., a Democrat. Also begun by Governor Roosevelt to silence critics of Tammany corruption was an investigation of the lower courts of Manhattan & The Bronx by the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court. Appointed as referee was Justice Samuel Seabury, longtime Tammany foe. Referee Seabury named small, Austrian...
...McNinch appointment precipitated a great deal of senatorial controversy as to just what constitutes a Democrat. Five Democratic members of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee disapproved Appointee McNinch's Democracy, voted against recommending his confirmation to the Senate. North Carolina's two Senators and its Senator-elect Josiah W. Bailey went through a characteristic series of molecular reunions and dissolutions on the question. Senator-elect Bailey, a regular Democrat, bitterly opposed the appointment before the Committee: "When the President gives a Democratic appointment to a man who has supported him the conclusion is that the President is using...
Sway. When the College of Cardinals locked themselves up in the Hall of the Conclave to elect the 261st Pope, there was no medieval bickering and dickering for the office. All were agreed that the next Pope must be capable of vigorous action, a doer as well as a thinker, an executive as well as a mystic. The influence of the Church over the earth must be extended, its sway reestablished. The time. 1922, was propitious for both. Religions gain when peoples are spiritually disorganized and muddled, as they were just after the War and still...