If, in 1944, Republicans keep all their present seats in the House of Representatives, they have only to win nine more to become the majority party, and the Republican Governor and legislature of Pennsylvania are doing their best to help. By a hoary political operation made famous by Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry,* they have now all but clinched five of the nine seats.
On the outskirts of Pittsburgh, scattered among three Congressional districts, are labor votes which in 1940 were sufficient to elect Democratic Congressmen from all three districts. Fortnight ago, Governor...
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