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...this over than anything else I ever did! They think I can't do it!" The evening before the National Committee met, the New Yorkers had dinner at the Shoreham Hotel. Swope sat with Charles Michelson, Charles S. Hand and John J. Leary, three of the World's ablest correspondents, at his elbow. Every few minutes he would turn to one or another of these correspondents : "Hand?call up New Hampshire!?[the New Hampshire National Committeemen]. Find out how they are going to vote!" A few minutes later the correspondent would come back, often with an unfavorable report. Swope...
Here are the apparently trivial explanations of two of the country's ablest political correspondents*: "You go into the headquarters of the Calvin Coolidge campaign, in the Willard Hotel. There sit William...
Strangely enough, in the estimation of one of the ablest political correspondents in the country, Mark Sullivan, McAdoo was responsible for Henry Ford's declaration in favor of Coolidge. There was a little personal matter to begin with. Many years ago ?during the War?McAdoo would not, or accidentally did not give an interview to Ford's "General Secretary" and Mr. Ford took offense. Besides that matter, Ford apparently does not like McAdoo's headlong procedure...
...years later Henry Villard, the railroad builder, bought the paper. Under him as editors were Carl Schurz (hero of the German revolution of 1848, and one of those who helped to nominate Lincoln in 1860), and E. L. Godkin (founder of The Nation, and generally admitted to be the ablest literary critic of his time, although his trenchant pen also turned to politics). Godkin's largest reputation was gained in the bitter and successful fight that he made against Tammany-he was a "fighting editor." After Schurz and Godkin, followed Horace White and Rollo Ogden...
...choice as campaign manager is a sign that the Johnson campaign will be a thoroughly professional affair and that it will be well financed. Frank R. Kent, one of the ablest of political correspondents, estimates that every one of the active candidates?Coolidge, Johnson, Underwood, McAdoo, will have from $100,000 to $500,000 spent in his behalf before the Convention. With William Wrigley and A. D. Lasker as backers, Mr. Johnson's fund may go well beyond that figure. William Randolph Hearst is also in Mr. Johnson's background...