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...Nominated by petition to run as an independent for Governor of Nebraska was the skull-capped oldster who has held that office thrice: Charles Wayland Bryan, 71, brother of the late William Jennings Bryan. One of his platform planks: the Townsend Plan...
...Lovett, l.e., Downing, l.t., Lacey, l.g., Cheever, c., L. Johnson, r.g., Tewksbury, r.t., Devine, r.e., Townsend, q.b., Hoar, l.h.b., Rowe, r.h.b., Smith...
...once more against Democrat Alphonse Roy, whom the House seated in Mr. Jenks's stead last June after the latter had served all but six days of the 75th Congress (TIME, June 20). To contest against New Deal Senator Fred H. Brown, Republicans nominated Representative Charles W. Tobey, Townsend Planner...
...Washington, New Deal Senator Homer T. Bone, despite some ballot-crossing by "Pro-American" Republicans, easily beat Otto A. Case, a Townsend Planner. Republican Ewing D. Colvin, Seattle attorney, was selected to try to crunch Mr. Bone...
...Maine went in 1936, so did the nation not go. In this week's "barometer" election, her three incumbent representatives*-Republicans all (Messrs, Oliver, Smith, Brewster)-confused their New Deal issue by all plumping for the vote-catching Townsend Plan of old-age pensions. Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows had the benefit of an anti-third-term tradition against former Governor Louis J. Brann, for whom Crooner Rudy Vallée stumped at the last moment. That all four Republicans won was less of a weather vane than a what-is-it, unless significance lay in the vote ratios...