THE CONGRESS: Makings of the 72nd (Cont.)

While party headquarters shouted political invective back and forth at each other in Washington, three primaries and one convention last week added their measure of nominees for the 72nd Congress. Developments :

Idaho. For the fifth time Republicans assembled in convention at Idaho Falls nominated Senator William Edgar Borah for the Senate. One vote was cast against him. Senator Borah rested 2,000 mi. away in the Maine woods. Idaho's two Republican Congressmen, Burton Lee French and Addison Taylor Smith, were renominated. To John McMurray of Oakley went the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

Idaho Democrats gathered at St. Anthony first thought they would not put up a candidate to oppose Senator Borah, largely because nobody wanted such an empty nomination. Then they changed their mind, named John Tyler of Emmett for the Senate. Nominee Tyler, 55, a grade school teacher turned farmer and smalltown politician, declared: "If elected, I will not be found voting with the Republicans as Borah has been with the Democrats." Democrats nominated for Governor G. Ben Ross, Mayor of Pocatello.

California. Republicans renominated their ten Congressmen, Democrats their one. Mayor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of San Francisco, won the Republican gubernatorial nomination over Governor Clement Calhoun Young (see p. 18).

South Carolina. Senator Coleman Livingston Blease sought Democratic renomination over James Francis Byrnes, onetime (1911-25) Congressman, and Leon W. Harris. As a "drinking Prohibitionist" Senator Blease openly condoned lynching, declared: "When the Constitution comes between me and the virtue of a white woman, I say to hell with the Constitution!" Candidate Harris, solicitor at Walhalla where he is prosecuting a lynching mob (TIME, May 5) ran a poor third in the primary. Senator Blease and Candidate Byrnes will enter a run-off election next week. Six years ago Senator Blease defeated Candidate Byrnes in a similar run-off for the Senatorial nomination after a whispering campaign had revived the fact that Byrnes was born and brought up a Roman Catholic in Charleston only to leave that faith when he entered politics. South Carolina's seven Democratic Congressmen were all renominated. Eight candidates sought the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Olin D. Johnson, 35, on a pledge to stop work on the State's much-needed $65,000,000 road program, led the field, will enter the second primary.