Primaries in three states last week added to the makings of the 72nd Congress (TiME, May 19). In three more states next week voters will pick party nominees to contest for House and Senate seats in November. Last week's votings:
Iowa. Representative Lester Jessie ("Hell-Raising Dick") Dickinson roundly defeated Governor John ("Honest John") Hammill for the Republican Senatorial nomination. Congressman Dickinson upheld the Hawley-Smoot tariff; Governor Hammill flayed it. But as an issue the tariff was subordinate to control of the state G. O. P. Nominee Dickinson will oppose Democratic Senator Daniel Frederic...
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