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What newsmen most wanted to know, and none dared ask, was what, if anything, the nomination of Wendell Willkie had done to Mr. Roosevelt's thoughts about Term III. Whatever the answer (the U. S. will have it after the Democrats convene July 15), G. 0. P.'s Willkie turned the last trace of Third Term opposition in the Democratic Party into a frantic demand that Mr. Roosevelt run. Even old Jack Garner, who seldom forgives and never forgets, sadly made up his mind that Franklin Roosevelt was the only Democrat who could beat this man Willkie. Janizaries...
...hearty voice began to grate with constant wear till it sounded like someone shucking corn. He proclaimed: "You'll hear me called a New Dealer and a Democrat. If there's one thing I have done it's fight the New Deal. Why, some of these other fellows who call themselves Republicans were selling off the regalia while I was defending the lodge." To a statement from 40 Republican Congressmen which hinted that he was "unavailable" because he was a neophyte Republican, onetime Democrat Willkie retorted in a favorite phrase: "That's a lot of spinach...
Married. Senator Carter Glass, 82, Grand Old Democrat of Virginia; and Mary Scott Meade, 50; in Amherst, Va.; both for the second time. Month ago Senator Glass called newshawks' questions about his courting "damned impertinent...
...were they stopped when professional politicos pointed out the obstacles: that Wendell Willkie was a businessman and, even more sinister, a utilities executive; that he had been a registered Democrat and had voted for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932; that his office was only a block from Wall Street; that he was unknown to most U. S. voters; that his stand against isolation had made him political poison in the Middle West and his support of the reciprocal trade treaties had ruined him forever in the Western States. In addition to alL these obstacles (beside the rumor that he had been...
Facing two years in the clink. Merchant Ballew moved to close out his automobile and electric-appliance business. In the Memphis Democrat he took a quarter-page ad: "Yes, folks, it's true. I'm not going to be with you much longer! . . . For in a little while I'll be stripping sorghum and hoeing peas instead of peddling refrigerators and radios. ... I want to sell at least 25 new G. E.'s so I can leave some bean and potato money for the wife and children while I'm eating off of Uncle...