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...last week, Democrats had not even bothered to take their coats off. The Third Term was a cinch. The whole thing was just a killer. National Committee Chairman Ed Flynn had decided that he did not even have to leave The Bronx. If anybody wanted him, they knew where to find him. Mr. Roosevelt made a few remarks which he laughingly admitted were "political." The only Democrat who seemed to take it seriously was Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace, who plodded up & down the land making earnest speeches to farmers...
...neatly slit by New Deal candidate-assassins. Keynoting the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, Mr. McNutt described the Republican policy as giving business complete license to operate any way it likes, denounced Willkie as a turncoat Democrat who has become "the Nation's Number One Roosevelt Hater." Even Boss Flynn finally announced he would emplane for the West Coast, see how things were going. In tones of ruthless triumph he thundered: "We must not only win, but win by so big a margin that it will be a long time before the opposition again insults the American people by nominating...
...Hawk (Errol Flynn, Flora Robson, Claude Rains, Brenda Marshall, Henry Daniell; TIME...
Drawing heavily on a special Willkie supplement issued by the labor-loving New Republic, Democratic Boss Edward J. Flynn issued a provocative statement on Willkie and Labor. Highlights: that Mr. Willkie's Georgia Power Co. spent $31,000 on labor spies from Pinkerton's; that Mr. Willkie's Central Illinois Light bought tear-gas guns and shells; that no fewer than three of the Willkie companies were clients of the biggest espionage agency devoted solely to industrial work. Mr. Flynn also charged that Consumers Power Co. and Alabama Power Co., both Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, were found guilty...
Wendell Willkie, who was the first utility executive in the U. S. to sign a contract with C. I. O., and whose companies had some 30 contracts with C. I. O. and A. F. of L., did not ignore this challenge. Mr. Flynn's "labor spies," said he, were hired for only one job: to inspect collections on Commonwealth & Southern streetcars when they changed from two-man to one-man operation, see that all the nickels went into the cash...