Makings of the 72nd (Cont.)
Three state primaries nominating candidates for the 72nd Congress last week concluded pre-election voting throughout the land.
Massachusetts. By a scant 7,600 votes William Morgan Butler, dry onetime Senator, won the Republican Senatorial nomination over his chief rival Eben S. Draper, Wet. Nominee Butler, old friend of Calvin Coolidge, had the support of the Old Guard, Candidate Draper of the Young Guard. The total Wet Republican vote in the state was some 15,000 more than that by which Nominee Butler won. Without...
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