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...have politicians been so Negro-minded as in 1936. There were 32 blackamoor delegates and alternates at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last June. Fortnight ago, after much soul-searching, Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley picked his Negro campaign managers. Last week the Republicans completed their slate of Negro managers. Estimates of the amount of money both parties will spend to corral the Negro vote before election day ran as high...
...Missouri will beat the Pendergast slate in November by a sizable majority...
...After the Armistice quantities of tiny 2-lb. bombs were discovered in Germany by Allied commissioners. They were found to be Thermite bombs which do not explode but silently produce one of the hottest known chemical reactions, easily burning through a slate roof. Many authorities on the next war consider that while gas bombs will wreak gruesome horror, more actual damage will be done by Thermite bombs...
Three eminent Democrats held a premature political convention of their own last week in the letters columns of the New York Times, where they were certain of getting a wider audience than they could enjoy at Philadelphia week after next. Naming no slate, they nevertheless drew up an epistolary platform which contained, among other originalities, the declaration that the "national policy followed by this Administration ... is profoundly reactionary." The signatories to these sentiments were Woodrow Wilson's Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, Franklin Roosevelt's first Budget Director Lewis William Douglas and Leo Wolman, who served...
...Governor was supported by Jersey City's Democratic Mayor Frank Hague. Indeed, in Boss Hague's Hudson County Hoffman polled four votes to every three for Edge, Duffield, Conklin, surpassed Fort 3-to-1. Nevertheless, final results added little to the Governor's prestige. The Landon slate beat the Borah slate 4-to-1. Among Landon delegates-at-large, however, Hoffman ran fourth, 50,000 votes behind Oldster Edge, whose comeback raised political eyebrows. Recognizing the rebuke, the Governor announced with unaccustomed modesty that he would not aspire to chairman the New Jersey delegation at Cleveland, resigned...