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Gallup pollsters last week asked Southern voters to name one choice for the next Democratic Presidential candidate. The South's choice: Roosevelt, 80%; Byrnes, 8; Wallace, 6; Farley, 3; McNutt, 2; Douglas, 1; Winant, less than...
...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...
According to the Senators, what really happened was that Gillette gave a luncheon for the Senators and Mr. Farley. They pondered ways of beating a Fourth Term nomination for the President, but neither discussed nor chose a candidate to do the wished-for scuttling. The keyhole eye of Columnist Pearson was evidently nearsighted - again...
Vice President James A. Farley...
Green-suited Eddie Johnson (George Montgomery) is a gambler out of work. His old colleague Joe Rocco (Cesar Romero) has done better: he owns the fanciest joint in Coney and employs Kate Farley (Betty Grable) as his star entertainer. Johnson sets up a rival establishment and starts stealing Rocco's talent as well as his business. Amidst the chicanery and the fisticuffing, Miss Grable shapes a fine career for herself on Broadway and in the arms of the man who was down but never out. She has always had a gift for looking well in the fewest possible clothes...