NEW DEAL REVERSE
SENATORIAL NOMINATION IN MIDDLE WEST
MR GILLETTE SCORES EASY WIN.
AFTER OPPOSING PRESIDENT’S BILLS.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.15 a.m.)
DESMAINES (Iowa), June 7.
The New Deal suffered an apparent reverse in the Mid-West, when Senator Guy Gillette won a sweeping victory in his campaign for the Democratic renomination against opposition supporters of the New Deal, who deserted him for voting against President Roosevelt’s Supreme Court ''and Reorganisation Bills. Both Mr Harry L. Hopkins and Mr James Roosevelt endorsed the opponent representative, Mr Otha Wearin, but the latter conceded his defeat in the early morning, when Senator Gillette held such a commanding lead that his victory was apparent when scarcely more than half the returns were in.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1938, Page 7
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