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Show I NAMES I ! in the noil's . . . I I i ft In Louisiana, Sam Jones put the finishing touches to the political dy-; dy-; nasty of the late Huey P. Long, as he was formally elected governor of that state. He takes office May 14. ft And also in Louisiana, another successful political candidate, Guy Caire, made the headlines for he was the first Republican to defeat a Democrat for a local office in that state since shortly after the Civil war. He was elected to the St. James parish police jury (county commissioner). ft Said Mrs. Martha Taft, campaigning cam-paigning for husband Robert A. in his drive for the Republican presidential presi-dential nomination, "It's time to get over thinking the Constitution will defend us and get out and defend de-fend the Constitution." ft Another wife of a "presidential possibility," while not campaigning for friend husband, Mrs. Franklin Roose"lt, said in a speech at Battle Bat-tle Creek, Mich., "By staying out of war we (the United States) may be the one torch of hope in the world." |