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Sniped gum-champing Edward J. Flynn, Democratic National Chairman: "[The Mayor is] a vain popinjay...
...Flynn: "... A mucker who has run amuck ... a demagogue of demagogues . . . the greatest faker on the American political scene ... the most super-colossal hypocrite . . . clown . . . this mountebank Mayor." Farley: "Breast-beating faker." Lehman: ". . . Shameless, scurrilous . . . insulting and vicious...
...Three or four men who control the radio networks have arbitrarily shut off from the air the voice of this great gathering." With these dark words, echoed by rabid applause, Chairman John Thomas Flynn opened America First's big rally in Madison Square Garden...
...Flynn had been reaching all week for a martyr's crown to put on the head of America First. At the moment Mr. Flynn was able to make his sweeping declamation because Mutual Broadcasting System, which recorded the entire rally, had time free to rebroadcast only Senator Burton K. Wheeler's half-hour...
...comparison with the all-station network facilities opened up for President Roosevelt's Navy Day speech, those offered to America First were small. But Mr. Flynn and his friends could hardly expect to be treated like the head of the Government, who alone of U.S. citizens rates all the air time he wants whenever he asks...