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...Ohio's 17th stayed with the New Deal and Representative William A. Ashbrook by about 5,000 votes. Last January, Congressman Ashbrook died. Last week his nephew, Byron Baldwin Ashbrook, Democrat, lost a special election to J. (for nothing) Harry McGregor, Republican, by 4,500 votes. The shift...
...Congressional campaign chief, pointed out that the G. O. P. had lost 43 districts in 1938 by less than 3%. The 7% in Ohio's 17th looked as lovely as the first daffodil to Massachusetts' wily Representative Joe Martin, G. O. P. pilot in the House. A shift of 47 seats would place Mr. Martin's plump little frame under the great crystal chandelier† that hangs in the Speaker's office...
...later powers came by narrower squeaks. Ben Cohen's Holding Company Act (after a stormy fight over its famed "death sentence," Section 11) passed the Senate by only one vote. A drastic remedy for bugs like Foshay, plagues like Insull, it aimed to reform the power industry, shift its control from Wall Street back to local managements. But the need for an SEC has never been seriously questioned, was recognized in the Republican platform of 1936. Its powers are really derived from the vast fear and suspicion of Wall Street that exists west of the Hudson. Established, effective, cocksure...
Jimmy Redmon is still out of the lineup, but this week another shift in the weights provides first string men right through the team with the exception of Harry Blaine at 128. Pete Illman has recovered from his injured wrist and will be wrestling at 145 this week, ten pounds lighter than he was before. Meanwhile, Bruce Richardson has gone down to the 136 pound class...
France's Premier Daladier, who hobbled in on canes* to apologize for having to shift this meeting from England (the last was in France, at Amiens), later described the gathering as "formidable" ("tremendous"). Originally the Council consisted of four men: Britain's Prime Minister Chamberlain and Lord Chatfield, France's Daladier and Generalissimo Gamelin. This time Mr. Chamberlain took with him four members of his Cabinet-Lord Halifax (Foreign Affairs), Winston Churchill (Admiralty), Oliver Stanley (War), Sir Kingsley Wood (Air)-plus a number of underling specialists and General Sir Edmund Ironside, chief of the British Imperial General...