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...swollen with local recommendations for "deserving" partisans. Each & every likely candidate must first be investigated because a President is held personally responsible for the character and calibre of any man he puts in office. Thus a President-elect gets his first idea of the awful magnitude of the four-year job ahead...
Pointing with Pride. During his four-year rule in Louisiana energetic Huey Long has made a public record to which his partisans point with pride. He reduced property assessments 20%. He distributed 600,000 free school books. At his free night schools 175,000 illiterates over 21 learned to read & write. From a third-class institution Louisiana State University has moved up to an A-1 rating. Its enrollment has been increased from 1,800 to 5,000. Louisianans can now attend it for as little as $20 per month. Senator Long is responsible...
...Constitution. This amendment would eliminate the "lame duck" session of Congress, change the Presidential inaugural from March 4 to Jan. 20. That 22 more States will complete ratification before 1937 is generally expected. Thus the President inaugurated next March will have 43 days clipped from the end of his four-year term...
Pittsburgh's mayoral term was changed in 1858 from one year to two. Henry A. Weaver served a one-year and a two-year term, 1857-60. Prior to him, Magnus Murray served three one-year terms, 1828-31. John Darrah had eight terms, 1817-25. But Pittsburgh's present charter dates from 1903. William A. Magee had two four-year terms (1910-14, 1922-26). Charles Howard Kline was the first four-year Mayor of Pittsburgh to succeed himself...
...Gene Venzke, 23, high-school student of Pottstown, Pa., holder of the world's record (4 min. 10 sec.) for running a mile indoors: a four-year scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania...