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...lieutenant governor, he lost by taking a trip around the world, sending his constituents political postcards from such places as Port Said, Singapore, Shanghai, Kobe. In 1932 he had his first major political success when, as a Wet, he waged a timely campaign against wealthy Senator Cameron Morrison. Bob Reynolds had stumped the State in an old Ford for six months, staged a surprising act in many a hillbilly town. Appearing on the platform with a roll of carpet under his arm, Candidate Reynolds described the spectacle of Senator Morrison driving up in his Rolls-Royce to the entrance...
...remarkable hookup among churchmen, politicians and pigeon-fanciers, some 3,000 pigeons winged industriously over large parts of the U. S. for several days last week. In Washington Representative Pehr G. Holmes helped Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor attach a little tube to the leg of a pigeon which promptly took off for Manhattan, carrying a message to England's grizzled old George Lansbury, onetime Laborite leader. In Philadelphia arrived two birds named Paul Revere and Betsy Ross. One fluttered aimlessly around City Hall before it was captured, handed to Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson...
...clock that night what the Tribune considered a "comparatively quiet primary day" was over. In their Hotel Morrison penthouse. Mayor Kelly and Boss Patrick A. Nash gloomed with Candidate Bundesen. In the Hotel Congress, Governor Horner beamed amiably, plumped his chubby hand into those of well-wishers. As expected, Bundesen had piled up a big lead over Horner in Cook County. But, as a whacking rebuke to the rule of Bosses Kelly and Nash, downstate counties turned in a lead of 310,000 for Horner, insured him the nomination by 150,000 votes. Asked if he would now support Horner...
Last week, as the campaign moved to Chicago, the real battleground, Mayor Kelly injected religion into it when he cried to some 500 Jewish politicians assembled in the Morrison Hotel: "It will be a sad day in Illinois for the Jews if it is apparent in the face of the election results that the Jews voted for Horner because he is a Jew. . . . When Henry Horner was nominated in 1932 the Irish went to the front for him and they battled side by side with the Jews to elect him. Now we're fighting Horner...
...George Alexander Morrison, Member of Parliament for the Scottish Universities, offered a teaser to test his colleagues' mental quickness, was appalled when the teaser was publicized, when his telephone began ringing as answers poured in from all over Europe. The teaser...