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Huey Long might as well have spared his pains, his State's money and his voice for last week New Orleans indignantly smothered the Long candidate, John Klorer. Klorer received 31,869 votes. An independent Democrat named Francis Williams got 26,673. Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley topped the ticket with 48,752. Since Democrat Walmsley had no clear majority, Klorer was entitled to a run-off primary. But the Longster, a poor second against the massed votes of his opponents, had no stomach for another contest. Thus Semmes Walmsley, whose rough-&-ready politics were learned through a long apprenticeship...
...Senator Long out of Washington. New Orleans was about to hold a Democratic primary for mayor, equivalent to election. At stake were Huey Long's power and prestige as State boss. In the field were three candidates: an independent, a Longster named John Klorer and Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley seeking re-election for the first time. Buzzard-bald Mayor Walmsley heads the Choctaw Club, New Orleans' Tammany. In 1930 the Choctaws joined up with the Long State machine but cut loose last summer when it became apparent that the blatant demagog's personal prestige was definitely waning...
Boston's Curley, Milwaukee's Hoan, Houston's Holcombe, New Orleans' Walmsley, Akron's Sparks, Cleveland's Miller. Bridgeport's Buckingham, Elizabeth's Williams. Salt Lake City's Marcus, Providence's Dunne. Newark's Ellenstein, Jersey City's Hague. Rochester's Oviatt. Yonkers' Loehr, Nashville's House, Worcester's Mahoney and a score more mayors of a score more U. S. cities trooped into the Chinese Room of Washington's Mayflower Hotel one sizzling hot day last week. They took off their coats...
...default crisis to the next on its short-term debt to local bankers. So old and familiar were Chicago's financial woes that Mayor Kelly did not bother to go to Washington to repeat them. Upshot of many a windy speech last week was the drafting by Mayor Walmsley of a tearful resolution of the conference's wants. It was adopted with a hopeful whoop. The mayors wanted: 1) the Government to lend them $1,000,000,000 per year for two years for routine operating expenses; 2) Reconstruction Finance Corp. to buy municipal tax anticipation warrants...
...Author. Youngest son of a local artist of Robin Hood's Bay (Bramblewick), a Yorkshire fishing village, Author Walmsley ran off to sea when young, later became Curator of the Yorkshire Marine Biological Station. He served during the War in the Flying Corps, crashed 14 times. After a trip to the French Sahara as naturalist on a scientific expedition he took to writing adventure stories, a novel of African pygmy life, Toro of the Little People. The ache of War wounds made him drop writing, go home to become an inshore fisherman, try to market his invention of a collapsible...