Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicity given in TIME and elsewhere to the race in New York State between Mead and Bennett is just as damaging to the morale of the nation as the apparent concern of President Roosevelt and Mr. Farley in the outcome of same. If politics as usual are out for the duration, then let's cease giving the antics of politicos publicity for the duration, save perhaps mere mention...
...provisions "heresy" and "a hell of a note." To Joe Guffey the scheme was stillborn. It "staggered" Colorado Ed Johnson's imagination. Puddler Jim Davis threw up his hands: "It is too complicated for an ordinary man like me to understand." It was "the most complicated monstrosity" Bennett Champ Clark had ever seen...
...York's little American Labor Party, given the cut direct by Jim Farley's Democrats (see above), were not merely miffed but mad. For months they had attacked Farley and his candidate, John Bennett, as threats to labor and to Roosevelt. Pinkos had tried to smear Bennett as a Fascist by labeling him pro-Franco in the Spanish Civil...
Supporting Bennett, symbol of a Roosevelt defeat, was unthinkable for them...
...Beat Bennett" became the battle cry-and this the A.L.P. might well do by splitting the Democratic vote, thus letting the G.O.P.'s unthinkable Tom Dewey...