Word: anti-fourth
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...significant something else happened in Wisconsin fortnight ago besides the defeat of Wendell Willkie. Overlooked, until the final returns were in, was the real score of the Democratic primary. In it an anti-Fourth Term slate, campaigning on the slogan "Stop Politics-Win the War," polled 68,000 votes, as against 97,000 for the Term IV ticket...
...Anti-Fourth Term slate was headed by Milwaukee's William R. Callahan, a Democrat who has never voted for F.D.R. and who has seethed more or less silently for eleven years while Democratic patronage went to Bob La Follette's Progressives. With the anti-Fourth Term Democratic vote added to the Republican vote, the primary totals stood: for Roosevelt, 97,000; against Roosevelt, 330,000. Political dopesters put Wisconsin down as another state-like Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas-which, in an election held today, would vote Republican no matter what...
...chosen instrument for the purge was one Otha D. Wearin, then billed as a red-hot New-Dealing Congressman, now a red-hot anti-Fourth Termer...
...last week. John R. Monroe, host of the briefly renowned Red House on R Street (TIME, May 17), slapped a $1,000,000 libel suit on him, another for $350,000 on the Washington Post, which published the special Pearson article, for defamation of character. Meanwhile a posse of anti-Fourth Term Senators, mad enough to slap him with something else, contented themselves with giving the lie to another Pearson story...
...Senators' anger arose with the appearance of Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round column headlined: GILLETTE IS CHOSEN BY FARLEY TO BEAT ROOSEVELT IN 1944. The burden of Pearson's story was that James A. Farley had met with anti-Fourth Term Senators (including Missouri's Bennett Clark, Georgia's Walter George, Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, et al.) to choose a candidate to win the Democratic nomination from Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. The man they settled on, said Pearson, was Iowa's handsome, white-thatched Senator Guy M. Gillette...