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Delegates from Harvard, Yale and Princeton are arriving at Old Nassau today for a round-table conference sponsored by the Young Republicans. John D. M. Hamilton, George Sokolsky, William Castle '00 and Col. Theodore Roosevelt '08 will participate in the "non-partisan and impartial" discussion...
...Republicans, with 91 delegates, elected as President Republican Chief Judge Frederick Evan Crane of the State Court of Appeals. To strike the proper non-partisan keynote, the convention then unanimously elected as Honorary President happy Democrat Alfred Emanuel Smith, a veteran of the 1915 convention. After a learned speech by President Crane on the virtues of democracy, the delegates, who will receive a $2,500 salary for their streamlining and hope to finish it by summer, recessed. Major streamlines suggested: a unicameral Legislature; replacing the present Department of Law under an elected Attorney-General by a department of justice under...
...unanimously endorsed the Democratic primary candidacy of Lieut.-Governor Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, urged its members to enroll as Democrats and to campaign for his nomination in the May 17 primary through the State branch of Labor's Non-Partisan League...
...pragmatic Pennsylvanians had hardly reached their homes when the A. F. of L. chief produced some pertinent pragmatism of his own. Addressing himself to all A. F. of L. affiliates, President Green damned Labor's Non-Partisan League as a ventriloquist's dummy for John L. Lewis, urged withdrawal of every form of support for it and a reaffirmation of the Federation's traditional policy of non-partisan scrutiny of all candidates- particularly now those supported by Mr. Lewis. It appeared certain that, in rewarding its friends and punishing its enemies, A. F. of L. would regard...
...Senatorial nomination on the old line Democratic slate is Labor's good friend, Governor George H. Earle. Governor Earle's support of Lawyer Jones has cost him the backing of C. I. O. and Senator Joseph Guffey who are opposing him with Philadelphia's currently non-partisan mayor, Samuel Davis Wilson. Out of this confusion and uprooting of old friendships, those who hope to benefit most are two more friends of Labor: Gifford Pinchot, Republican candidate for Governor, and "Puddler Jim" Davis who hopes to succeed himself as Pennsylvania's Republican Senator...