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"Are you going to use that sponge or do you want Auntie Jezebel to scrub you?" (Nationalization of mines.) (The Coal Commission.) (Coal Industry.) (Guffey-Vinson Law.) (Which shall it be?)

1. Which Shall It Be?

Identifier::: holt_00008
Title::: Which Shall It Be?
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(We'd Like to Help Too, Mr. Guffey.) (F.D.R. 1st term) ("Canceled by the Supreme Court") (F.D.R. 2nd term) ("Canceled by the tories") (F.D.R. 3rd term) (To Senator Holt with kindest regards, Bruce Russell)

2. We'd Like To Help Too, Mr. Guffey

Identifier::: holt_00114
Title::: We'd Like To Help Too, Mr. Guffey
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(The most famous voter in our district this morning.) "Look! He voted the straight Democratic ticket!" "Why--he isn't on the public payroll!" "And he isn't on relief, either!" "My goodness--think of it!" (Federal jobholders) (State jobholders) (WPA vote) (Road com. vote) (Relief vote) (AAA vote) (Coal com. vote) (FHA vote) "Am I seeing things?" (Ballot)

3. The Most Famous Voter in our District This Morning

Identifier::: holt_00109
Title::: The Most Famous Voter in our District This Morning
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(1928 Anti-third term resolution) "That's it, take that thing down." (Barkley) (Pork) (Harrison) (King) (Pittman) (3rd term campaign plan) (Pork) (McKellar) (Patronage) (Wagner) (Pork) (Neely) (Patronage) (Appointments) (Sheppard) (Pork) (Ashurst) (3rd term campaign plans)

4. That's It, Take That Thing Down

Identifier::: holt_00112
Title::: That's It, Take That Thing Down
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(That big-check suit that was hung on Harry.) (Hopkins) "It doesn't belong to me!" "It fits perfectly" ("Spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect" statement)

5. That Big-Check Suit That Was Hung on Harry

Identifier::: holt_00107
Title::: That Big-Check Suit That Was Hung on Harry
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(!933 (no election)) (1934 (election summer)) (1935 (no election)) (1936 (election summer)) (1937 (no election)) (1938 (election summer)) (W.P.A. Rolls) (Politics) (Thar's Gold In Them Thar Hills!)

6. Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills!

Identifier::: holt_00105
Title::: Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills!
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

"Third term--no third term--third term--no third term" "If he would just decide on which daisy!" "Maybe it's the 1940th!" (Wallace boom) (Garner boom) (F.D.R.)

7. Still Keeping Them In Suspense

Identifier::: holt_00111
Title::: Still Keeping Them In Suspense
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(Sprouting again) "Hm-m" (Third term talk) (U.S. public) (Two term precedent)

8. Sprouting Again

Identifier::: holt_00027
Title::: Sprouting Again
Creation Date::: 1939

(Relief Rolls) "Harry, it's sorta a coincidence that it reached its peak on election day, isn't it?" (Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.) (Harry Hopkins) (Taxpayer)

9. Relief Rolls

Identifier::: holt_00024
Title::: Relief Rolls
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(No wonder he leans on his shovel!) (Candidates to vote for) (Political Abuse) (WPA)

10. No Wonder He Leans On His Shovel

Identifier::: holt_00030
Title::: No Wonder He Leans On His Shovel
Creation Date::: 1938

(Business) (New tax bill) (House)

11. New Tax Bill

Identifier::: holt_00072
Title::: New Tax Bill
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(Harry Hopkins) (New Deal critics)

12. New Deal Critics

Identifier::: holt_00070
Title::: New Deal Critics
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(Mr. Farley tests a trial balloon with trailers.) (Roosevelt 3rd term) (If drafted) (In national emergency) (Daily bread highway) (Tax payer) (Tax collector) (Tax collector) (Tax bill) (Tax collector) (Bill) (Tax Collector) (Tax bill)

13. Mr. Farley Tests a Trial Balloon With Trailers

Identifier::: holt_00110
Title::: Mr. Farley Tests a Trial Balloon With Trailers
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(Maybe It Will Break the Silence.) (Labor Headache) (Lewis) (Third term Sphinx) (Green) (For New Deal) (Farley)

14. Maybe It Will Break the Silence

Identifier::: holt_00113
Title::: Maybe It Will Break the Silence
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(Last Fall's Elections) (WPA cash) (Hopkins) (Congress) "That money was to last 'til March, Harry." "Well, we had to rush this project, Senator."

15. Last Fall's Elections

Identifier::: holt_00022
Title::: Last Fall's Elections
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(Investment in the future?) (West Virginia Democratic HQ) (Pay check) (Flower fund) (State road workers) "Flowers are for funerals too!"

16. Investment in the Future?

Identifier::: holt_00033
Title::: Investment in the Future?
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(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.)

17. I Tank I Go Home

Identifier::: holt_00026
Title::: I Tank I Go Home
Creation Date::: 1939

(Hope Springs Eternal!) "Maybe I'll retire at 65!" (New Deal averages spending $63 per person since 1935.)

18. Hope Springs Eternal

Identifier::: holt_00117
Title::: Hope Springs Eternal
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(Hallowe'en 1938.) (New Deal hydro-electric power competition.) (Cheap imported fuel oil competition.) (The coal industry.) (Ringg-gg-ggg!) (New Deal congressional candidates.)

19. Hallowe'en 1938

Identifier::: holt_00016
Title::: Hallowe'en 1938
Creation Date::: 1938

(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."

20. Guffey Going-Away Glee Club

Identifier::: holt_00009
Title::: Guffey Going-Away Glee Club
Creation Date::: 1937

"Garner is unfair to Roosevelt." (F.D.R. for 3rd term) (Ickes)

21. Garner is Unfair to Roosevelt

Identifier::: holt_00069
Title::: Garner is Unfair to Roosevelt
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(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.")

22. Fed Up

Identifier::: holt_00122
Title::: Fed Up
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(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.)

23. Do I Feel a Draft?

Identifier::: holt_00011
Title::: Do I Feel a Draft?
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(Lewis) (Green)

24. Desert Island

Identifier::: holt_00071
Title::: Desert Island
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(Administrative set-up) (Bituminous Coal Commission) (F.D.R.'s gov't reorganization) (Clinkers) (To Senator Rush D. Holt, with all good wishes.)

25. Clinkers

Identifier::: holt_00025
Title::: Clinkers
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(Big Business) (Five Billion) (F.D.R.)

26. Big Business

Identifier::: holt_00066
Title::: Big Business
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(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)

27. As Getting Up Time Approaches

Identifier::: holt_00007
Title::: As Getting Up Time Approaches
Creation Date::: 1930-1940

(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.)

28. All's Too Quiet on the Home Front

Identifier::: holt_00029
Title::: All's Too Quiet on the Home Front
Creation Date::: 1939

(A needed push.) (WPA) (Politics) (Sheppard Committee Report) (Soap)

29. A Needed Push

Identifier::: holt_00031
Title::: A Needed Push
Creation Date::: 1939