The Wilmington Morning Star (August 9, 1944)
Wagner to face GOP’s Curran
By the Associated Press
New York Democrats renominated Senator Robert F. Wagner today, and Republican leaders of that state agreed upon Secretary of State Thomas J. Curran as his opponent in the November general election.
Curran’s formal selection by the GOP convention later in the day was regarded as a formality after Republican State Chairman Edwin F. Jaeckle announced in Albany that a consensus of the executive committee agreed on the 45-year-old Manhattan attorney. He was the choice of Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the party’s presidential nominee.
In Connecticut, the state Republican convention renominated Senator John A. Danaher and Governor Raymond E. Baldwin.
In Arkansas, predictions of a heavy Democratic runoff primary vote failed to materialize up to noon despite the bitterly-contested race between freshman Congressman J. W. Fulbright and Governor Homer M. Adkins for the Senate seat of Mrs. Hattie Caraway. Reports placed the vote at midday as slightly less than in the first primary two weeks ago in which Mrs. Caraway was defeated.
The day’s other political activity included a Vermont primary.