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(A condition at home that needs attention.) (Europe) (The administration) (Domestic Problems) (U.S.) (To Senator Rush D. Holt with best wishes of Messner, Rochester Times-Union)
(A fine romance, my friends, this is!) (Home sweet home (until Nov. 3rd).) (Kump Administration) (Democratic love seat) (Sen. Neely)
(A greater menace!) (Atlantic ocean) (American public) (War profiteer)
(A high school graduate at fourteen years of age!) (Diploma Rush Dew Holt.) (Received his education in public schools of Lewis County!)
(A needed push.) (WPA)  (Politics) (Sheppard Committee Report) (Soap)
("A West Virginia right!") "Oh boy when I give 'em this!" "Hey Maw!  Pops makin' like Mr. America! (1 vote) (Rush Holt for Governor)
"Ain't I a scream!  But ya' can't blame me for howlin'!  I might as well put out a few zero's too!  The gov't! uses 'em by the million and thinks nothin' of it!" "And the way things are going the most of us will have to work ten years just to get back up to nothin'!" "Wanta' know sum'pin?  We can start right now here in our own backyard!" (Vote Nov. 4th) "We can step right up to the polls and elect Rush D. Holt Governor of our great state!"
(All's too quiet on the home front.) (Pop) (Bang) "It's a funny war." (Europe) (Administration) (Public) "What about this one?" (Jobless) (U.S. war against continued unemployment.)
(Among my souvenirs) (The big 1918 stack of red, white, and blue.) "Did I hear someone say: 'Take a hand'?" (I.O.U. England, France, Italy) (I.O.U. Russia, Austria) (To Senator Rush D. Holt with best wishes)
(Another problem boy becomes teacher's pet) (We love our teacher.--Dem machines) (New Deal) (Third term) (Federal investigation threats) (Harmony slate) (Third term indorsements by Dem. political machines) (Illinois Democrats)  
(Appeasement)
(As getting up time approaches.) "I'm in favor of setting the alarm forward four years." "Why not eight more?" "Or twelve?" "Or sixteen?" (2-Term precedent) (Soft New Deal Jobs)
"Honesty in government" (Rush Holt) (Nov. 4th)
(Big Business) (Five Billion) (F.D.R.)
(Bill of goods) (Marland and the boys.  Hanna Express) "Step on it!  We don't want to get stuck with this load!" (Vote Nov. 4th for Rush D. Holt for Governor) (Stop) "Thank goodness here's a refuge!" "Mother we're sure going to make our vote count safely this time!" "We certainly are Dad!  And Mr. Holt will know what to do with our vote!"
(Billions for foreign arms) "I left an arm over there too!  Oh well I get a few dollars a month so I suppose I shouldn't gripe!" "These pay checks are a little larger but it's funny!  They keep buying less and less! (Vote for Rush Holt for Governor!) "Joe we've got to vote this time!" "I intend to!  We certainly need a change and if we get out and do our part things are going to be better!"
(Born June 19, 1905 in Weston, W.Va.) (Member - Sons of American Revolution, Sons of Revolution.) (Member Political Science Association.) (Former state President of Moose.)
(Europe) (Bullitt) (Congress) (Kennedy)
(Census Snooping) "Uncle Sam wants to know whether you have a bathtub in your home." (U.S. Census 1940) (John Q. Citizen) (Privacy of the American home) (To Senator Rush D. Holt with my compliments, Fred O. Seibel) (Richmond Times-Dispatch -- March 2, 1940)
(Home) "Beat it boys!  This things brakes ain't workin'!" (Rush Holt for Governor)
(Administrative set-up) (Bituminous Coal Commission) (F.D.R.'s gov't reorganization) (Clinkers) (To Senator Rush D. Holt, with all good wishes.)

21. Clinkers

(Contract)

22. Contract

"Come on Willie you've got larn'gitis!" [Laryngitis] "Yea Holt!" (Debate today!) (W.Va.)
(Democracy's three enemies) (Communism) (soap) (Government and Industry) (Fascism) (Force) (Indifferent voter) (Election Issues)
(Formerly a school teacher, Holt has taught West Virginians a lot about how the utility interests control legislation at the tax-payers' expense.) (The railroad men are backing him.) "He gets my vote." "Mine too." (Teacher) (Holt, as Senator, will give the agricultural interests his ardent support.) "He's got organized labor with him." (Rush D. Holt, Democratic nominee to the U.S. Senate) (This brilliant young legislator carries the New Deal banner proudly and high, and his courage, candor, and sincerity have won the confidence of West Virginia voters.  His record in the state legislature in behalf of labor, agriculture, and the miners, "stands out in blazing letters, so he who runs may read".) (Like Henry Clay, Rush got an early start.) (Mills -- factories) "Holt is for a better standard of living for working men." "He taught our kids in school and he battled for us in the state legislature.  He'll be a good man for us to have in the U.S. Senate in Washington." (Pres. Roosevelt) (A friend of the miners)  
(Lewis) (Green)
(In World War I, 11 years old, a Western Union boy!) (In World War II, presenting himself more than once for physical; he was turned down each time on account of strong glasses.) (Did not ask for exemption.)
(Do I feel a draft?) (Third term open question.) (Newspaper. "President Roosevelt will not seek a third term unless drafted." Jim Farley.) (To Senator Rush D. Holt with best wishes.  Paul Plaschke.)
(Elected to the United States Senate from West Virginia in 1934, the youngest person ever elected to that body.)
(Fed Up!) "Wish they'd stop that stuff and get men to work!  That's the real problem!" (War talk!) (Cotton) (Domestic problems) (To Senator Holt -- with highest regards, John Baer "former M.C.")

30. Fed Up

(Fools' Gold) "If this thing pans out the way I want it to, Uncle will soon get rid of those patches!" (The Depression) (The unemployed millions) (F.D.R.) (Blood-soaked profits) (Repeal of the arms-embargo) (The bloody stream of war)  
(For once the President is right!) (Boom!!  For prospective profits derived from the blood business) (U.S.) "Dear Uncle Sam--The refusal of the Senate to act at this session on neutrality has killed off a nice little business boom!  Yours Sincerely, F.D.R." (F.D.R.)
("Put men back to work and the business of the nation will increase.") (Down with utility rates) (Utility rates) (Nominated for the United States Senate at the age of 29, the eyes of the nation are upon him.  Henry Clay is one of the few other men to go to the Senate under the 30-year limit.  Absolutely fearless, plain spoken, and a miracle of energy, Rush D. Holt's meteoric rise within the last five years is without a parallel in the state or nation.) ("President Roosevelt has done more for the common people in 19 months than any other group of presidents did in as many years", he says.  Recently visited at the White House at the invitation of the President.) (100% for Roosevelt) ("Principles of christianity should guide all government activities," he advocates the abolishment of poor farms by old age pensions.) (He's been endorsed by state old age pension league of 27,000 members.) (Returned to legislature in 1932 without opposition in home county of Lewis, Republican by 600 majority.) (American Federation of Labor, West Virginia Federation of Labor and United Mine Workers of America endorse Rush D. Holt.) (For U.S. Senator Hon. Rush D. Holt an ardent new dealer) (He entered the West Virginia University wearing short trousers at the age of 14.) (He has traveled more than 20,000 miles in epochal campaign tour.) (He has--taught college classes, coached athletic teams, served as a newspaper man.) (He fought for classification amendment to save farms and homes from confiscation by excessive taxation.)    
"Garner is unfair to Roosevelt." (F.D.R. for 3rd term) (Ickes)
"Houn'dawg you are now on the right side of the fence so let's take a walk around!" "I'm itchin!" "Now over there is a friend of mine!  Him and me remembers tough plowing!" "No wonder!" "Imagine!  Trying to make hay in this day and age with a jackass!" "Them days is gone for good boys!  This time I'm votin' for Rush Holt." "Gee!  This guy howls my language!"
(Reorganization) (Gov't Expenses) (Spending) (To Senator Holt with best wishes.)
(Guffey going-away glee club.  Wheeler, Van Nuys, Burke, O'Mahoney, Holt.) (Democratic harmony series.  Music arranged by Farley-Guffey Company Inc. 1937.) "I don't care if you never come back."
(Hallowe'en 1938.) (New Deal hydro-electric power competition.) (Cheap imported fuel oil competition.) (The coal industry.) (Ringg-gg-ggg!) (New Deal congressional candidates.)
(Sen. Matt Neely) (Sen. Rush Holt) (Here lies the feud of Rush & Matt sooner or later he'll rise and come back.) (Born 1933. Died 1940.)
(U.S.A.) (War Boom) (Post-war depression) "Here we go again!"
"Hey fellows it's a boy!  And the the wife is voting Nov. 4th for Rush Holt so the kid will have a better chance than I ----."
(Holt exposed politics in W.P.A) (Demanded special session of legislature to get assistance for needy when grants reduced! (Politics) (State Employees) (Rush Holt promises decent assistance program!) (W.Va. stands 42nd in old age assistance!) (Rush Holt says this is a disgrace.) (244%) (Large fellow) (Payroll increase!) (7.7%) (Small fellow)
(Sweep it clean) (Holt for governor)
(Hope Springs Eternal!) "Maybe I'll retire at 65!" (New Deal averages spending $63 per person since 1935.)
"Mmmm!  Keeps bouncing up with the facts 'eh!" "Something sure toughened up his resistance the last four years boss! (Pa W.Va.) (Vote 4 Rush Holt) (How about a different "policy" boys?)  
(Loot) "I said I'd clean it up and I meant every word!" "It's house cleaning time in the valley!" "It's Rush Holt!"
(I tank I go home!) "Good luck to you, bill...and now I go home for a real rest..." (Neutrality bill) (Amendments) "Hey! What about us?" (Farm Subsidy) (Budget changes) (Relief program) (Defense outlay) (To Senator Rush D. Holt--with the best wishes of Harry Bressler.  November 10, 1939.)
"Look I'll explain it this way!  Suppose I know what our state needs and so I decide to run for office!" "Look fellows!  Be like Joe!  He checked everything!  Tell 'em Joe." "Sure Rush Holt for Governor" "Ya' might fool our youngun's part o'the time but not when it comes to the political candidates." "I'll still take Rush Holt!"
(3rd term question) (F.D.R.) (U.S.) (I'm Tired of the Whole Subject.) (To Senator Rush D. Holt with all good wishes, Gene Elderman)
(In the political woods) "How long is the political life of giant statesmen like us?" (Senator Guffey) (Senator Davis) "Wonder where new senatorial timber grows?"