Word: electives
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...House, the Democrats must take 53 seats from Republicans. Even if they fail to make this full gain necessary to organize the chamber and elect their own Speaker (it would be John Nance Garner of Texas), they may achieve practical control of House affairs with the aid of about 15 Wisconsin and other Republican insurgents. Many a Republican leader considers such an eventuality as worse than an outright Democratic victory. Particularly sensitive to the possibility is the man who would then be presiding over a House that would be Republican in responsibility but Democratic-Insurgent in power and practice...
Three sound explanations existed for this Republican breach which seriously unsettled the certainty that Pennsylvania, as it has done for the last 39 years, would elect a Republican governor in November. They were: 1) longstanding hostility be tween Nominee Pinchot and Boss Vare, whose candidate for governor Mr. Pincho' defeated in the primary; 2) the Wet appeal of Nominee Hemphill in Republican urban districts; 3) the apprehension of Big Business at Nominee Pinchot's "radical" program of industrial and utility regulation...
...Oswald. Never was leadership more bankrupt than last week at Llandudno. In blind resentment the Conference refused to re-elect to the party Executive Committee of Twelve famed James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, M.P., the jovial Laborite whom Scot MacDonald first made Lord Privy Seal charged with combatting unemployment (TIME, June 17, 1929 et seq.), and when he failed at that gave him his present post, Minister of Dominions...
...Minas Geraes and Parahyba. It was naturally these three states that rallied in revolution last week around defeated Candidate Vargas. He has charged for months that agents of the "Coffee Oligarchs" assassinated the vice-presidential candidate who was his running mate. He says that he would now be President-elect instead of Dr. Prestes had not the "Coffee Government" of President Washington Luis perpetrated gross ballot-box frauds...
...10?Holding of Haitian national elections, to elect successor to temporary President Eugene...