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...public meeting at New York's Carnegie Hall, staged by the non-partisan Council for Democracy. In stage-Lincoln voice, Actor Raymond Massey read a unity plea by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet. Unity speeches were made by Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Selective Service Director Clarence A. Dykstra, Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Labor Leader George M. Harrison, Industrialist Howard Coonley, Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing, Citizen Alfred Mossman Landon...
Some of them had reason to worry. This year Rogers Dunn, praised by Columnist Hugh Johnson, widely quoted by pro-Willkie newspapers when the Gallup Poll began to go against their man, surveyed 40 States by various formulas (not sampling of the populace), offered no estimate of the popular vote. To Wendell Willkie he gave 29 States with a total of 364 electoral votes, to Franklin Roosevelt only eleven States with 124 electoral votes...
Said Mr. Ickes: that was "very admirable," but he doubted whether all papers were working for unity. He said there was a paper (name not given) which had taken its stand behind the President in an editorial on page 1, inside had printed a columnist's attack on the President. Miss Mallon reminded him that a columnist's opinions were his own, not the publisher's. That, said Mr. Ickes, was the bunk...
Present at this exchange was Hearst's veteran Washington columnist, Paul Mallon (no kin to little Miss Winifred). He had had some trouble getting in: a secret-service man barred his way. White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre admitted him, told him to stay behind when the conference ended. Then, said Newsman Mallon, "a White House Spokesman" told him not to come again-that "because of inaccuracies in his column" he would not be welcome...
...Columnist Grafton does not use the word revolution. His formula for "how democracy will defend America": "set [the people] loose and learn from them...