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...positive was pugnacious old Clarence Budington Kelland, the slick fictioneer who is also national committeeman from Arizona-a part of the country where dinosaur relics are still found. One day last week, Bud Kelland delivered himself of a blast. Said he: "Dewey's campaign was smug, arrogant, stupid, and supercilious ... It was a contemptuous campaign, contemptuous alike to our antagonists and to our friends. The Albany group proved themselves to be geniuses in the art of stirring up an avalanche of lethargy. No issue was stated or faced." What was needed, said Kelland, was a "housecleaning from...
Legionnaires were subdued. Suddenly and forcibly, they had been made to realize that their hooligan antics had ceased to amuse. The clincher was the problem of next year's convention. Wailed a committeeman: "For the first time in our history, we have no bid from any city." Nobody seemed to want the American Legion...
...other events of the evening were much more recognizable. Republican National Committeeman Sinclair Weeks, of the class of 1914, chairmanned the evening and spent considerable time by dumping carloads of superlatives over the heads of Senator Saltonstall, of the class of 1914, of Senator Lodge, of the class of 1924, and of Governor Bradford, of the class of 1923. Weeks also mentioned Joe Martin, North Attleboro High School, class...
...Populi. In St. Louis, Henry C. Mertz helpfully drove 14 people to the polls as part of his campaign for ward committeeman, later found that in their precinct he had got a total of one vote...
McWhorter introduced Sinclair Weeks '14, former United States Senator and Republican Committeeman, who called the coming election "the most important of all time. No other has been more fraught with good and evil than this one," he said...