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...extemporaneous opening he paid his respects to Chairman Flynn, "that apostle of purity of The Bronx," and invited Candidate Roosevelt to answer three questions: 1) What did he think about a fourth term?* 2) Had he entered into any secret pact with a foreign nation? 3) How did he justify running as a liberal and reform candidate with the support of the political machines of Chicago, Jersey City and The Bronx? Reading from his manuscript, Willkie attacked Roosevelt's foreign policy, the present role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nobly Save or Meanly Lose | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Democrat Byrnes. Senator Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina, New Deal trouble shooter, was sent north this week to push over teetering New York State, coordinate ineffectual Boss Ed Flynn, amateur Tommy Corcoran. Charged Byrnes, speaking of a Willkie blast at insufficient conscription housing: "Result of Mr. Willkie's misleading statement . . . was to strike fear into the hearts of American mothers. . . ." (On tanks) "Mr. Willkie was unfair to the President, to the Army and to the Chrysler Corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUNDING OFF: Sounding Off | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Last week the New Deal, after holding ils fire all summer, once more turned its guns on the press. A preliminary barrage was laid down by Edward J. Flynn, longtime boss of New York City's Bronx, now chairman of the Democratic National Committee. One morning, at press conference in Manhattan, Boss Flynn let go with both barrels, accused the newspapers of truckling to a "dictatorship of their advertisers and stockholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newsmen & New Dealers | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...probability it will do it many times again. But the fascination of Tudor England seems to hold American moviegoers entranced and they come to see tales of the Virgin Queen screened and re-screened. Perhaps it's the sword-play, perhaps it's the capes, perhaps its Errol Flynn's tawny beard that gets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/24/1940 | See Source »

Head of the Democratic Colored Division is Julian David Rainey, Boston lawyer. Mr. Rainey got his signals crossed with Boss Flynn, first "repudiated" the mimeographed statement, later admitted that it had been prepared in his office. It had been whipped up by an underling, said he, who had it mimeographed without Mr. Rainey's knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smear | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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