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General Johnson had declared a truce on verbal bombing for the duration of hostilities: "I am going to be ... careful ... to abstain from too many joyous wisecracks and in my small way hold up the hands of every person in public life who is trying ... to keep us out of war. ..." A few days later he forgot his resolutions when (in a column favoring censorship for radio) Dorothy Thompson wrote: "Do we want to hear General Johnson presented as a military expert and . . . make remarkable (and most inaccurate) statements about why we entered the last...
...impression" that the Prime Minister had dictatorial ambitions, would find it more diffi. cult from now on. "I frankly say that I despair when I listen to speeches like that to which I've listened this afternoon." Then, despairing Member Cartland trooped off to the smoking room to abstain from voting on a measure of confidence, as did some 40 other Conservatives. The cloakrooms gossiped that party whips handed the names of abstainers to Mr. Chamberlain, were demanding Mr. Cartland's political hamstringing, that Mr. Chamberlain, like Mr. Roosevelt, faced a purge of his own party. The vote...
...barred by the Constitution from succeeding himself when his first term comes to an end in November 1940-last week got off to an early but gentlemanly start. President Cardenas' Cabinet, three members of which recently resigned in order to become eligible for the Presidential race, pledged to "abstain radically" from political activities during the campaign in order "to keep the people from having barriers in the free expression of their will...
...Civil Service Commission last week warned its 533,325 classified Federal employes to abstain from political campaigns...
...August 1, Chairman Jesse Jones admonished all RFC employes to abstain from active politics, except voting. Presumably exempted: Special RFC Counsel Tommy Corcoran, top political cowboy for the White House, who does his campaigning not among voters but among politicians...