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Olvany on Woollen. To Mr. Olvany last week came also Evans Woollen, potent Indianapolis banker, last fortnight (TIME, May 16) advanced as Democratic Indiana's presidential choice. It was suggested that Mr. Woollen came to see Mr. Olvany concerning the Tammany attitude toward his boom. Said Mr. Olvany: "I found Mr. Woollen a fine and upstanding Democrat but we did not discuss politics...
Brennan on Woollen. Commenting on the Woollen candidacy last week, George E. Brennan, Illinois Democratic boss, supporter of Governor Smith, said: "Tom Taggart always has his water buckets out in case it should rain...
...Democratic State Committee meeting last week, Boss Taggart named his leading man for 1928? the Indianapolis banker Evans Woollen. It was explained that Democrats were looking for a Midwestern candidate; that Mr. Woollen would receive nationwide support...
...nationwide introduction will first be necessary but in making it, Boss Taggart will not lack for good things to say. President of the Fletcher Savings & Trust Co., a neat, grey man of 62, Candidate Woollen has frequently displayed fortitude combined with his philosophy. He bolted the Bryan organization in 1896. He told farmers who deposit in his bank that, sorry though he was for them, he viewed the McNary-Haugen farm relief scheme with alarm. Similarly he has risked the displeasure of manufacturers by denouncing high tariff time and again...
...vote-getting, it was Candidate Woollen who gave Senator Arthur R. Robinson a bad scare last autumn as one of the Democratic senatorial aspirants that cut the Republican lead from its normal 100,000 in Indiana to a scant...