Word: oren
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Purposes: 1) "To encourage the exercise of good citizenship by taking part in local political affairs." 2) "To promote a better understanding of current political questions. . . ."3) "To encourage competent men and women . . . to seek public office through the machinery of our two-party system." Said Original Willkie Booster Oren Root: "Our position is the same [as before the election] in that there are certain fundamental principles of government and of life in which we believe just as much today as we did two months...
Chubby-cheeked Oren Root Jr. had already written to all the Willkie clubs,* -urging them to keep their files and organization intact, stand by for orders. The orders came from Mr. Willkie: "Your function during the next four years is that of the loyal opposition...
...same car were political advisers: Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck; John Hollister of Cincinnati, ex-law partner of Senator Robert Taft; bumptious ex-Gagman Walter O'Keefe, drape-suited young Lawyer Oren Root Jr. Then Vincent Gengarelly, barber-valet-masseur; Willkie's press-relations man, quick-smiling, 30-year-old Lamoyne Jones, ex-crack police reporter of the New York Herald Tribune, who looks like a juvenile lead...
...spread a haze in the sky. The personal popularity of Louis Jefferson Brann, former Democratic Governor, candidate for U. S. Senator, also made Republican leaders reluctant to have the Maine vote used as an augury of what will happen in November in the rest of the country. Nevertheless young Oren Root Jr., head of the Associated Willkie Clubs, marched in to the State two days before the election and proclaimed: "What you do or do not do on Monday will profoundly affect Willkie's chances of victory in this nation in November. . . . For Wendell Willkie's sake...
...pipe, sweated, conferred with waves of visitors, planned a political safari. Said Mr. Pryor last week, giving the impression of a man waiting for the signal to set off a howitzer: "Wait until after September 15." Strictly amateur, the Associated Willkie Clubs, whooped up by 28-year-old Lawyer Oren Root Jr., were under full steam in over 900 cities...