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...they changed their mind, named John Tyler of Emmett for the Senate. Nominee Tyler, 55, a grade school teacher turned farmer and smalltown politician, declared: "If elected, I will not be found voting with the Republicans as Borah has been with the Democrats." Democrats nominated for Governor G. Ben Ross, Mayor of Pocatello...
Mississippi. Democratic Senator Pat Harrison and seven Democratic Congressmen were renominated without opposition. Congressmen Ross Alexander Collins won renomination after a close contest. The Senate Slush Fund Committee held a special meeting at Fargo, N. Dak., to investigate charges that Chicago detectives were trailing its chairman, Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. One detective admitted that he had been assigned the task of looking up Senator Nye's "life" but insisted he was not trying to get something on him. Asked by newsmen if he thought the detective had been employed by friends of Illinois' Republican Senatorial Nominee...
Democrats of Texas last week held their run-off primary to nominate a governor. The candidates: Ross Shaw ("Big Fat Boy") Sterling, wealthy publisher of the Houston Post Dispatch (circulation: 69,000), chairman of the State Highway Commission; and Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, onetime (1925-1927) governor. No. 1 Sterling stumpster: Governor Dan Moody. No. 1 Ferguson stumpster: Husband James E. ("Farmer Jim") Ferguson, removed by impeachment from the governorship in 1917. The issues: "Fergusonism"; "Common People" v. "Millionaires." Never before had Texas been through such a bitter personal campaign as followed the first primary a month ago when...
After three worried days, Ross received a radio message from Camp Dix (Wrightstown, N. J.). A Fort Monmouth bird had come down there badly wounded. He hurried to Camp Dix, found his Molly. Like many another pigeon, she had been attacked by a hawk. There was a big hole in her back. Her weight, usually 14 oz., was down to six. Although sad to see Molly's condition, Pigeonman Ross was proud that she had chosen an Army camp for refuge. She had never seen Camp Dix before...
Last week Molly Pitcher was home again in the pigeon hospital at Fort Monmouth. Said Thomas Ross: ''She's just a pitiful little handful of skin and bones and she hasn't got many feathers left but she's coming along. She'll fly again...