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...Martin undoubtedly had in mind reports that while Mr. Root's clubs were doing very well, Mr. Root himself was not doing so well as a campaign organizer. Nominee Willkie announced after his conference with Messrs. Martin, Fletcher, Root, et al. that some bugs had been smoothed out. But he went out of his way to congratulate Oren Root for "a magnificent job." More important, Wendell Willkie pointedly indicated that his campaign will be kept in three distinct channels: 1) the Root clubs, with their appeal to the mass of non-partisan independents who twice elected Franklin Roosevelt, will...
Westward to get this news flew a covey of G. O. P. professionals: National Chairman Joe Martin, General Counsel Henry Prather Fletcher, Executive Director John D. M. Hamilton, several others. They found Wendell Willkie on the sixth floor of The Broadmoor hotel, having the time of his life. In shirt sleeves, crinkled trousers, bedroom slippers he worked, read, chatted amid a continual clatter of a dozen typists (two days behind on 600 incoming wires and letters per day), incessant callers, whanging telephones (The Broadmoor had to install a special Willkie switchboard). He left his spacious suite (three rooms...
Messrs. Martin and Fletcher did not have such a good time. Joe Martin wanted to subordinate bumpity young Oren Root Jr.'s 600 independent, crassly amateur Willkie-for-President Clubs to the regular G. O. P. organization. Lawyer Fletcher had a plan to get around the Hatch Act's $3,000,000 limitation on national-campaign expenditures by splitting up contributions among various candidates and State, local, national committees...
With Jovian forbearance, Mr. Willkie reiterated his intention to keep total G. O. P. expenditures well below the legal maximum, otherwise refrained from rebuking Henry Fletcher in public. That privilege was reserved for Democratic Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, who opined in Washington that Mr. Fletcher's device was illegal...
Last fall, two of the crammers (the University Tutoring School and Fletcher Briggs) gave up the ghost. Early in May the College Tutoring Bureau followed suit. Still busy, however, were the two biggest tutoring schools. Wolff's and Parker-Cramer. Last fortnight, Harvard's Dean A. Chester Hanford socked them in the solar plexus. Any student who attended a commercial tutoring school, he announced, would be "liable to disciplinary action." Harold A. Wolff, proprietor of the biggest school, promptly announced that his school would give up tutoring, would restrict itself to "educational counseling" of students "who have done...