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...political speeches. Last week, while Franklin Roosevelt was looking the other way, Secretary of the Interior Ickes let fly with an old-fashioned barroom blast at the Republican candidate ("the simple, barefoot Wall Street lawyer"- TIME, Aug. 26). Then, while Wendell Willkie kept his eyes strictly front, three hatchet men let fly at Mr. Ickes. Only conclusion that plain citizens could draw was that the lofty level of the 1940 campaign would be restricted for the use of nominees only: for the rest, the air would soon be filled with razors, hatchets and shillelaghs...
...Hatchet Man No. 3 was New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, who made suggestively scalp-knife noises by explaining that the Republican National Committee could not afford to answer Secretary Ickes on the radio because it was "refusing to chisel funds from New Deal business victims with a campaign handbook racket. . . ." Getting worked up to his war dance, Senator Bridges ululated: "Who is this Ickes who talks so big-at a safe distance-about Hitler? In his own right Ickes is a Hitler in short pants. . . . A professional rabble rouser. . . . A political hatchet man. . . . Like Hitler...
Since the end of May, when Franklin Roosevelt invited competent businessmen to help him arm the U. S. against war, many a bloodstained hatchet in the New Deal's feud with business has been quietly buried. Most unobtrusive burial: utility men (once the President's most truculent foes) have begun to work alongside public-powerites (some of the toughest hatchetmen in the New Deal) for the mutual good of preparedness. To the Defense Advisory Commission have come two key ambassadors of the power industry: Charles Wetmore Kellogg, president of Edison Electric Institute, and Gano Dunn, president of construction...
...years ago, hatchet-faced Private Lew Jenkins of Sweetwater, Tex. took a furlough from his job of shoeing horses at the U. S. Army's Fort Bliss. He went to Dallas to see the sights. After a few days he was broke, went to a matchmaker to ask for a fight so that he would have a place to flop at night. Back at his post, Private Jenkins was dissatisfied. The $15 he got for that one fight in Dallas was about two weeks' pay in the Army. A few weeks later, Private Jenkins bought himself...
...Senator" told Hatchet-man Durno he had chosen as 1940 president the New York Times'?, alert Felix Belair Jr. Balding Newshawk Durno grumbled that Vice President John O'Brien of the Philadelphia Inquirer was next in line; added that Belair didn't want to run. Gruffed the Boss: "I'm not asking him, I'm telling him." Thus, on a Good Government platform, Felix Belair Jr. was this week elected W. H. C. A. president-as correspondents all over the city deserted press rooms, cabbed to the White House, voted 100% Belair on the slogan...