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(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.")

1. Fed Up

(Speaking of  "cockeyed" suggestions!) "There's more where that came from!" "These days are great for me!" (Money for war) (Congress) (Mars) (Having broken all peacetime records for appropriations for the army and the navy, and with the prospect that the total for national defense will run over $2,000,000,000 next year --) "We'll have to economize on you folks!" (Congress) (The champions of "economy" in Congress now say they must "economize by slashing the appropriations for relief!) (To my good friend-- Senator Rush D. Holt-- with best regards, John Baer.)
(Uncle Shylock: "Somehow, I have the strangest feeling I have been along this road before.") (The Allies are fighting your battle.) (Make the world safe for democracy.) (For Sen. Rush D. Holt with the cordial best wishes of the cartoonist.)
(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."
"Tommy, find out who this guy Macauley is and take his patronage away." (President raps Macaulay philosophy.  Roanoke Island, N.C. Aug. 18.) (Corcoran) (James A. Farley, Chairman Democratic National Committee.)
"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?)
(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.)
(Gallop poll) (Fortune poll) (poll)  (poll)

8. Polls

(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)
"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.)
(Democracy's three enemies) (Communism) (soap) (Government and Industry) (Fascism) (Force) (Indifferent voter) (Election Issues)
(Wary) (White House Correspondents) (Politicians) (Public) (Third Term Decision)

12. Wary

(The only platform he seems to need nowadays.) (candidate) (U.S. Treasury)  
(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.)
(Sprouting again) "Hm-m" (Third term talk) (U.S. public) (Two term precedent)
(A needed push.) (WPA)  (Politics) (Sheppard Committee Report) (Soap)
(No wonder he leans on his shovel!) (Candidates to vote for) (Political Abuse) (WPA)
("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.)    
(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)
(Administrative set-up) (Bituminous Coal Commission) (F.D.R.'s gov't reorganization) (Clinkers) (To Senator Rush D. Holt, with all good wishes.)

20. Clinkers

(!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!)
(1600 Pennsylvania Ave.) "What do you consider your permanent home?" (F.D.R.) (1940 census) (Speaking of Personal Questions.)
(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)  
(One good term deserves another.) (1953) "Bet he's dreamin' Holt's elected." (zRushz z [sleeping])  (Statehouse Gang)
(Investment in the future?) (West Virginia Democratic HQ) (Pay check) (Flower fund) (State road workers) "Flowers are for funerals too!"
(A greater menace!) (Atlantic ocean) (American public) (War profiteer)
(U.S.A.) (War Boom) (Post-war depression) "Here we go again!"
"Well Son, there's your medal!"
(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)
(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.)
(Contract)

31. Contract

(New voters) (To Hon. Rush D. Holt from Nelson Harding) (N.Y. Journal-American) "You Are Americans"
(Maybe It Will Break the Silence.) (Labor Headache) (Lewis) (Third term Sphinx) (Green) (For New Deal) (Farley)
(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?"
(It would only add another bloody cross.) (The repeal of the arms-embargo) (American boys slaughtered "over there";  1939-19??) (American boys slaughtered "over there";  1917-1918)  
(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.)
(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)  
(Rush Holt's father was a very well known country doctor and also served as mayor of Weston!) (Treated six generations of same family!) (Editor Weston Republican!) (Accompanied many times by his wife, Lela!)
(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.)
"Mommy I'll stay in bed if you read me the Rush Holt story again!"
"It's House Cleaning Time in the Valley. [musical notes]"
(Elected to the fifth term of house of delegates without opposition!) "Welcome!  Here he comes with the facts!" "Gentlemen!  Whom do I see to get a locker?" (Rush D. Holt of W.Va.) (Active in youth program!) (7 year old daughter Helen Jane a Brownie Scout!) (National Council Boy Scouts of America!) (As early as 1927 wrote articles calling for cleanup of state mental hospitals long before holding or aspiring to any political office!)
(93% of people of Lewis County voted for him in last election!) (Rush Holt's home county.) (Lewis County, West Virginia) (Piloted a bill through the legislature giving the teachers the largest pay boost they have ever received!) (Pay raise $) (2 + 2 =) (One of six children!  Worked his way through college!)
(Elected to the United States Senate from West Virginia in 1934, the youngest person ever elected to that body.)
(Elected to sixth term, House of Delegates 1948 on both tickets!) "Just a plain good candidate!"
(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)
"Just when I discovered gold!" "I've got enough to keep me the rest of my life!" "Here comes Rush Holt!" "They told me not to worry!  It was in the bag!" ($50 million road plans.) "Nothing to do but run with it now boys!" (Flower fund) (Liquor) (Contracts)
"Not a thing in the record book against him!  We'll just have to cook something up!" "Should I stoke it up some more we've got plenty of fuel!" "They all like Rush Holt, but we can try this." (State House Gang smear.) (Tax payers pile.)
"All we've had so far is promises!" (Rusty equip.) "Oh man!  What a mess!  Phooie!" ($50 million) (Elect Rush Holt Governor.) "Neighbor here's our only hope!" "Rush Holt will build us some decent roads!"
"What's he trying to do?  Haunt the public?" (Rush Holt) "We're in trouble Willie!  Besides the broom we've got to worry about skeletons in the closet!"  "What will we call this act?  Country corn?" (Wet blanket Willie) "Better call it off."
(Voter) (Rush Holt steps for honest gov't.) "We've got to duck again Willie!  Every time we get that guy where we can handle him that fellow Rush Holt shows up with  trouble for us!"
(Another) (Gone) (Here too!) (1 American boy) (1 more) (Another) (Troubled American fathers) (100,000+ casualties in Korea!) (Vote Nov. 4th Republican Rush Holt for Governor!)
"Scram!  That ain't no broom Willie!"  (Rush Holt) (16 point program) "You're telling me!"
"Look!  Ain't that hoppa-long Marland the bull throwing champ?" "Yeah!  For the past four years that outfit tried to make the public believe in Santa Claus!" "Every campaign has its clowns!" "Got any saddle soap?" "All we've got is soft soap." "Rush Holt will hogtie Willie on Nov. 4th!" "I've been with this act a long time but I've got a feeling this outfit is heading for the last roundup!"
"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 ----."
("A West Virginia right!") "Oh boy when I give 'em this!" "Hey Maw!  Pops makin' like Mr. America! (1 vote) (Rush Holt for Governor)
(Home) "Beat it boys!  This things brakes ain't workin'!" (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!"
"Look! Even their mascot is disgusted!" "He should be!" "I hope someone has insurance on this outfit!" "I'm just the quarterback!  I'm not supposed to carry the ball!" (Responsible state gov't!) "I'm not ready!" "And I never did know the signals!" "Coach if we want a winner put Rush Holt in there!  He knows how to carry the ball!" "That outfit never could score!" (Matt) (Homer) (Bill) (Pat) (Fumble A.C.) (Voter)  
(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!"
"Houn'dawg my ol' pal why th' hangdog look?" "I'm no howlin' success!" "You need a new start!  Hop over here a minute." "Yeah!  Mebby I've been barkin' up the wrong tree!" "Look what I got!" "Now that's what I call a first class plank job!" (Rush Holt 4 Governor) "Hot dog!  Someone sure has been brushing up on their politics!"        
"Wow!  The conservation dept. alone spent nearly $892,000 bucks on cars and supplies in the past 4 years!" "Us old folks didn't have much show under this administration either son!" "I'll leave a few of these Rush Holt for Governor posters with this fellow.  He's probably as sick of our road situation as everybody else!" (We don't raise eggs no more!  Roads to market too rough!) (Fishing Camp No. 1 private road) (Camp No. 2) (No. 3)
(Our state and its opportunities!  A wonderful chance to have a worthwhile old age assistance program!) (Vote Nov. 4th for Rush D. Holt republican candidate for governor of W.Va.) (Trucking) (Decent farm roads) (Real highways backed by a real road program!) (Recreational facilities made available to all citizens!) (An honest parole system!) (A forward looking school program!) (And every section of our state equally represented.)
"Houn'dawg did you ever see a place with more opportunity than right here in America!" "No sir!" I guess a guy can find just about any opportunity he wants if he just looks!  Hey here's tracks." "Well that just goes to show!  When a man makes the right kind of tracks it always takes him to the right place!" (Rush Holt 4 Governor)
"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?)  
"Sh-hh! It's his until he finds us!" "Bah!  I'm tired of this game!  I'm going to Rush Holt's meeting!" "Ray for Rush!" (Meeting house secret) (Well known bag co.) ("PA")
"Come on Willie you've got larn'gitis!" [Laryngitis] "Yea Holt!" (Debate today!) (W.Va.)
(University of West Virginia and Salem College!  Graduated with A.B. Degree 1924.) (Mother was one of the first to graduate from Salem College.) (WVU) (Salem) (Married June 19, 1941 to Helen Louise Froelich, Gridley, Illinois.  One daughter and one son!) (Coached St. Patrick's High and twice took basketball team to nat'l. tournament.) (Teacher and coach, Virginia and West Virginia high schools and colleges 1923 to 1931.)
(Elected Rush Holt) (House of Delegates) (1930 1932) (Lewis County) "Move over boys!  Here comes Rush again!" (Elected to third term 1942.) (Re-elected for a fourth term in 1944 by a write-in vote, receiving more votes than both party candidates combined!)
(Lecturer, newspaper, and magazine writer!) (Editor West Virginia Taxpayer.) (National representative Caux Conference in Switzerland 1948.) (Member U.S. delegation to Norway 1939!)
(A high school graduate at fourteen years of age!) (Diploma Rush Dew Holt.) (Received his education in public schools of Lewis County!)
(Member of the Methodist church.) (Has delivered addresses from over fifty pulpits in the state of West Virginia!) (Cousin of two Methodist bishops!) (Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes) (Bishop Matthew Simpson Hughes) (Teaches largest and best attended men's bible class in Weston!)
(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.)
"Look Mommy!  Kerry would like to go to Sunday school with us!"
"Eye to eye November the 4th!" (Rush Holt Republican Candidate for Governor.)
(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!"
(Rush D. Holt) (Republican Candidate for Governor) (West Virginia)
"Everyone!  All out Nov. 4th with Rush Holt for Governor!" "Let's clean out!"
"Willie, I think our entry has a little too much pedigree behind him!" "Mr. Holt, as a veteran I know the value of honest leadership!  So my buddies want you to handle our interests!" "Maybe I can string him along with this!" (Field trial.  Entries.  Rush Holt & progress.  Marland & co.  "promises deluxe".) (Very stale bait!) (Rock of Gibralter) (Promises) (3 1/2 yrs. of howling)
(Booming prosperity!) (?) (America's 20 yr. highway)  (For rent no children) (Corruption) (Pay more taxes here!) (Strikes) (Higher prices) (Controls)  (Mink) (Savings) (Charges!) (Bonuses!) (Korea) "Mmm! Think I'll stop right now and use that material!" (Rush Holt for Governor of W. Va.) (Plain common sense)
($50 million road funds) (plus flower fund) (plus state house gang) (equals no funds) (Pa W.Va.) "I'd better vote for Rush Holt."
"Honesty in government" (Rush Holt) (Nov. 4th)
"The only thing super about a two lane highway today is the traffic!" (W.Va. new super highway) "The legislature says make it four lanes!" "In 1946 the law was passed calling for multiple lanes in each direction!  Does the law count?" "Mac it looks to me like Rush D. Holt has the facts!" "But the state is building a two-lane job and it's to be a toll road, imagine!" (Rush D. Holt 4 Governor of W.Va.) "That's a fact!"
"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!"
(This is what money will buy in West Virginia!) (Or this!) "After all it's my money that is being spent along with the rest of the taxpayers!  This time I'm going to make my vote count!" (West Virginia No. 1) (Millions wasted on equipt.) (Rush D. Holt 4 Governor.)
"Just what we want!" (A decent road program!) (An old age assistance program that really works!) (Conservation money to be spent for everyone!) (Open to public) (State supplies) (Insurance) (Facts) (Rush D. Holt) (Representation for all people of our state!) (This program to be made effective immediately) (Decent care for those confined to mental hospitals!) (State purchases to be made evenly!  Not just to a favored few!)  
(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!"
(Okeys 4 yr. experiment scientific) "Hurry up boys!  This machine is only guaranteed until Nov. 4th!" "Oh boy!  This machine pays premiums!" "That machine might not be scientific but it sure has been an education for us voters!" "What that thing needs is this attachment!" (Taxes) (Save some for me!) (Rush D. Holt) (Voter)
(Rush D Holt for Governor) "Moral!  See you Nov. 4th when we go to the polls for Rush Holt for Governor of W.Va."

89. Moral

"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!"
(Rush D. Holt for Governor) "Sure!  That gets him to town!" "But I figure it was easier to put up that big sign!  People all stop and look!  Then they think!  Then when we elect Rush D. Holt governor we'll get decent roads!" (Route Zero W.Va.)
(Highlights of headline news.  News in the name with a slogan for fame.) ("Roosevelt for President, and for Vice-President Mr. Ickes, and no party can lick us.") (Yes [No] third term.) (Roosevelt must or Democratic Party bust.) ("Our young dignified U.S. Senator makes a dignified political poster.") (Raise High Our Leader's Third Term. [RHOLT acronym]) (Charles Levinson, 2450 Broadway N.Y.C., NY Dec. 31, 1939.)
(Last Fall's Elections) (WPA cash) (Hopkins) (Congress) "That money was to last 'til March, Harry." "Well, we had to rush this project, Senator."
(Vermont) (Maine) (Conn.) (N.H.) (Mass.) (R.I.) (New England) (Farley)
(Harry Hopkins) (New Deal critics)
(Business) (New tax bill) (House)
(Lewis) (Green)
(Japanese Bombings) (Cholera) (China)
"Garner is unfair to Roosevelt." (F.D.R. for 3rd term) (Ickes)
(Big Business) (Five Billion) (F.D.R.)