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...platform speeches, even at midnight, in Springfield, Mo. (At Springfield, a small boy threw the first rotten apple of the campaign,, missing Dewey by ten feet, but conking a photographer.) At each stop Dewey continued in his Oklahoma City style, swinging freely-at bureaucracy, at the "Roosevelt" depression, at Hillman, Madam Perkins and Earl Browder...
...American elections differ from our own; [Americans] have more of the gift for the snappy phrase. . . . Thus we have John L. Lewis describing Sidney Hillman . . . as 'a Russian pants-maker who is trying to take over the rule of the nation.' Who can think of a single good quip by Sir Robert Borden or Mr. Bennett or Mr. King? . . . Who can equal Mr. Ickes' phrase about the youthful Mr. Dewey 'throwing his diapers into the ring,' or his description of Wendell Willkie as 'the barefoot boy from Wall Street...
...Dewey could not compete with the Champ when it came to sustained sarcasm; but he threw one sudden and effective sarcastic punch, when he announced that Franklin Roosevelt was indispensable : "He is indispensable to Harry Hopkins, Madame Perkins, Harold Ickes . . . the Mayor of Jersey City . . . to Sidney Hillman . . . and to Earl Browder...
...John L., the Edmundson rebellion was clearly a plot by Franklin Roosevelt, Sidney Hillman and Earl Browder to embarrass him. He shouted: "Don't Browder and Hillman and Roosevelt know that for 25 years I have met every champion of American finance and industry that American politics has produced...
Among the incorporators are Henry J. Kaiser, Beardsley Ruml, Sidney Hillman, Wendell Willkie, the deans of four local medical schools, many a prominent doctor. But the five county medical societies are not represented...