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William T. Pheiffer, 42, Republican, of New York's famed Gashouse (16th) District, beat James H. Fay, New Dealer, who purged Old Dealer John J. O'Connor in 1938. Pheiffer and Republicans were stunned by his victory. Pheiffer was unknown, a Texan, a lawyer, a 21-month Republican resident of a sure Tammany district. It looked suspiciously as if Tammany, not liking New Dealer Fay, had decided to hand the district over for two years to a Republican...
...wrangling with the college trustees to the Governorship of New Jersey. For this, Wilson, afraid Harvey's Wall Street connections might injure his role of reformer in the eyes of the masses, soon kicked his backer downstairs. President Maker House was a soft-footed, soft-voiced, soft-eyed Texan who finessed Wilson into the White House. Later Wilson broke with...
California is proud of Pebble Beach. But it is not proud of the fact that a Californian has never won the Women's golf championship. Californians converged on Pebble Beach last week determined to get the crown from curlyheaded Texan Betty Jameson. Of the 164 entrants, 80 were Californians (including Dancer Ruby Keeler...
...Hopkins successor for Secretary of Commerce, Franklin Roosevelt's choice was the New Deal's No. 1 businessman, Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, hard-featured, big-boned, white-haired Texan. En route to Harbor Springs, Mich, for a vacation when this news broke, Jesse Jones had nothing to say. This week the President will see Louis Johnson-who, after being ushered out of the War Department, failed to nibble at a post as one of the anonymous Presidential assistants-to ask him whether he wants to be Under Secretary of Commerce...
...four years, during World War I, Texan Knott lambasted Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor Franz Josef. His savage drawings were reprinted all over the U. S., ater were published in a book. The war over, Cartoonist Knott grew genial again, adopted a lanky, mustachioed character, 'Old Man Texas," based on a real Texan, he late James A. ("Uncle Jimmy") Boyd. Death came to Old Man Texas one day a year ago. Four days later, John Knott's ellow artist, Adolf Hitler, sent his troops torming into Poland. Last week Artist Knott, busy again at 61 lambasting the new overlord...