POLITICAL NOTE: Nominee No. 1

Nominee No 1.

Last week in Omaha was made the first formal nomination for President of the U. S. in the campaign of 1936. Maker of the nomination was one Roy Harrop's Farmer-Labor Party.* Favorite candidate of most delegates was Huey Long but he lost the nomination by his absence from the convention. Therefore the party renominated its 1932 nominee, Jacob Sechler Coxey, who three years ago took 7,309 votes from Roosevelt, Hoover and Thomas, who four years ago was elected Mayor of Massillon, Ohio (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931), who 41 years ago...