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...friend and Republican journalist for the arch- Republican New York Herald Tribune, not only announced the end of Depression but said that Recovery was reaching its "second stage." "The first stage is the recovery from extreme depression and panic. . . . The panic conditions are completely over and will not return. . . . Ogden Mills, Secretary of the Treasury, estimates July 27 as about the date that marked the ending of that final phase of the depression. . . . There is now practically no one in any area of serious thought who doubts that the depression is ended. . . . Practically no one doubts that the rises...
Both parties stumped the State as they never had in recent years. The Republicans imported Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. The Democrats called in James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney and Massachusetts' Governor Joseph Buell Ely and Senator David Ignatius Walsh. Interested but helpless observers were 350 "paupers" of Lewiston, Me., disfranchised under an old law which denies the right to vote to those who accept State or municipal charity. These gave Senator Walsh a chance to say that the Republicans, "having brought misfortune to many people ... are now penalizing them for this mis fortune." The 350 Lewiston "paupers...
...failed to win elections for Republican nominees. Carefully following in his father's oversized footsteps, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. served two years at Albany before going to Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.? In 1924 when he ran for Governor, Alfred Emanuel Smith defeated him unmercifully. Ogden Livingston Mills spent two years in the State Senate, six in the House of Representatives, but Smith trounced him too, in 1926. Albert Ottinger was a State Senator before President Harding put him in his sub-Cabinet as Assistant Attorney General. He was beaten in 1928 for the Governorship by Franklin Roosevelt...
Energetic Editor Swanson went after big-name contributors. Many of them appeared only once; sometimes their contributions would be brief or palpably second-rate. Occasionally ? as in the case of Donald Ogden Stewart's Rebound and Noel Coward's Private Lives which had already been produced on the stage ? they were comparatively stale. But the names on the cover, names like Alec Waugh. George Jean Nathan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wallace Irwin, were impressive...
...Ogden Livingston Mills, Secretary of the Treasury LL.D...