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...President's appointment of Bronx Boss Ed Flynn as Ambassador to Australia had turned out, during his absence, to be the worst political boomerang he had tossed since the Supreme Court fight. It was too late to repair the damage: the President would be busy for months erasing the memory of the mistake...
...that a President had suffered a rebuff on a diplomatic nomination: on that occasion it was a cynical Senate which turned down an able man.* For Ed Flynn it meant the loss of three jobs in three weeks-the national chairmanship, committeeman from New York, boss of The Bronx...
...laws of practical politics, tall, easygoing Ed Flynn would be entitled to his new job without causing a national uprising. Barring any new, sensational proof of Senator Bridges' charges, his record is remarkably clean for one who has been a political boss-local (The Bronx) and national-for 22 years. Ed Flynn's unswerving loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt might recommend him as a personal envoy. But of the talents necessary for a representative of the U.S. people, Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News said: "He is not a diplomat. He has had no foreign experience...
...Made one appointment which was almost unanimously decried: tall, smooth Edward J. Flynn, successful Boss of The Bronx and unsuccessful chairman of the National Democratic Committee, to be the President's personal Ambassador and Minister to Australia. To critics who failed to find any diplomatic qualifications in the background of hard-bitten Politician Flynn, this looked like the worst kind of lame-duck appointment. Cried Wendell Willkie: "The appointment is ... revolting to all decent citizens. The difference between the high professions of President Roosevelt's and Vice President Wallace's speeches and the Administration...
Only the Brooklyn Eagle, the Bronx Home News, the Morning Telegraph, a racing sheet and PM, a cross between a tabloid and a magazine, came out during the strike. PM did not capitalize on the situation by turning itself into a real newspaper, but succeeded in quadrupling its 150,000 circulation by being the only paper on most stands and offering a pro forma digest of the other papers' chief comics and columns. (Sample: "Westbrook Pegler: He's still yammering about 'union racketeers'; George Sokolsky: He's not worth quoting either.") The city was forced...