75th House

With Senate control beyond possible reach, Republicans knew that if they failed to capture the White House their only hope of a voice in the Federal Government would be to hack down the 3-to-1 Democratic majority in the House, elect at least a strong working minority. But as the Roosevelt avalanche swept the land, it seemed certain that when the 75th Congress meets (Jan. 5), President Roosevelt will have as unassailable a House majority as he had in the 74th, at least 315 seats out of the 435.

Few were the newsworthy old faces removed from, or new faces added to, the House. Most picturesque Congressman-reject was a woman, California's chunky, wisecracking old Florence Kahn, beaten after six terms by San Francisco's County Supervisor Franck Havenner on a straight Re-elect Roosevelt platform. In New York, Harlem's fiery little progressive Republican Vito Marcantonio was defeated by a Tammanyman. Making up for the loss of Arizona's Isabella Greenway, retired, Oregon elected another of Eleanor Roosevelt's bridesmaids, Nanny Wood Honeyman, to replace stalwart Republican William Ekwall. In North Dakota, freckled William Lemke, whose Union Party vote for President was piddling, easily topped the field for re-election to his present Republican job as Representative-at-Large.

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