Strength of state machines in primaries shocks observers
National Affairs notes that local party organizations in multiple states outmaneuver Washington spending in primaries. It cites Illinois Iowa Tennessee Indiana and New York as strong examples with Barkley in Kentucky shaping outcome amid Roosevelt era dynamics and debate over a third term.
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Illinois
Roosevelt
William H. Dieterich
Iowa
Guy M. Gillette
Harry L. Hopkins
James Roosevelt
Ed Crump
Memphis
Kenneth McKellar
Tennessee
George L. Berry
Indiana
Paul W. McNutt
Frederick van Nuys
New Deal
Virginia
William E. Dodd Jr
Germany
Howard W. Smith
Dodd
Norman R. Hamilton
Harry Flood Byrd
Pennsylvania
David Lawrence
Joseph F. Guffey
New York
Jim Farley
Robert H. Jackson
Kentucky
State House
A. B
Happy) Chandler
Chandler
Alben W. Barkley
Senate
Barkley
PWA
Cockeyed politics in TVA investigation distracts from truth
A Senate committee uses paid experts to probe TVA ownership, with secrecy about salaries, amid partisan aims and fear of harm to the administration. The piece argues the tactic serves political ends and masks spending trends as inflation and tax changes loom.
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James J. Davis
Pennsylvania
TVA
Capitol Hill
Bennett C. Clark
Missouri
Pendergast
Kansas City
Matthew M. Neely
West Virginia
Neely
White House
George McGill
Kansas
Clyde M. Reed
Reed
Roosevelt
Congress
Treasury
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Switch Game Still Good Cobbler Loses $2000
In Carteret New Jersey Karl Born a father and cobbler reported a switch game swindle. Two men brought shoes to repair and posed as benefactors planning a $20 000 fund and bonds. Born withdrew $2000 thinking bonds were placed in a lock box but found only paper strips and a few five dollar bills.
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Carteret
N. J
Karl Born
Nity
Born
Defies Curse Lies in Desecrated Sarcophagus
London reports F W Jacquemin of Wolverhampton defied a reputed curse by lying in the desecrated sarcophagus of the last abbot of Bindon Abbey Wool Dorset. Local superstition says he will die violently within a year. the tomb has a long history of alleged deaths after desecration and is linked to Hardy's Tess of the D Urbervilles.
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London
F. W. Jacquemin
Wolverhampton
England
Bindon Abbey
Wool
Dorset
Jacquemin
Angel Clare
Thomas Hardy
Dentist Discovers Gold Flakes Beneath Patient’s Tooth
In a comical exchange a dentist notes gold flakes on his drill stating the tooth had never been filled. The patient laments hidden back collar stud is damaged while a waiter jokes about a special coffee from Australia and a dig at language skills.
Don’t say prayers before meals says boy
At lunch a guest asks the child why prayers aren’t said before meals. The boy replies that his father insists their cook is quite reliable.
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Royal Arcanum Bulletin
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