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Maryland Roundup Reveals Campaign Deals and Trials
The piece charts Maryland political intrigue as Willis Jones gains city support against Senator Tidings tied to alleged deals with Governor O Conor. It notes a forthcoming trial of editor Rives Matthews for criminal libel, GOP maneuvering over Dewey in Baltimore, and a Maryland tax loophole affecting federal workers with voting residences elsewhere. It also reports farm labor shortages in Allegany County signaling broader agricultural strain.
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Millard Tidings
Willis Jones
Jones
Tydings
Herbert O’conor
O’conor
George Radcliffe
William Curran
Jack Pollack
Maryland
Rives Matthews
Somerset News
American Association of Newspaper Publishers
Matthews
Elisha Henson
Montgomery County
Millard Tawes
Supreme Court of the United States
Free State
J. Earl Morris
Princess Anne
Crisfield Times
Egbert Quinn
Crisfield
David Ward
Dudley Roe
Morris
Davey Ward
West Point
Andrus
Italy
Baltimore
Dewey
New York
Mayor McKeldin
Galen Tait
Harry O. Levin
Levin
E. 0. Weller
U. S&s
Ralph Powell
Harry C. Dashiell
District of Columbia
O’hara
House of Representatives
Washington
Virginia
D’alesandro
Ellison, Lasseer
Beall
Senate
Allegany County