Word: anti-fourth
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...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...
Like a mighty political juggernaut, the President's train plowed through the South last week. All observers (and even some of the principals) agreed that the President left in his wake the wreckage of the anti-fourth term movement...