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G.O.P. Chairman Herbert Brownell saw in Maine's voting a "virtual guarantee" of nationwide victory. Maine's Republican Senator Owen Brewster found a moral: "Mr. Hillman is an albatross hung about the Democratic neck." The P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman explained simply: "Maine is a Republican state...
...slogan seemed to be catching on. It had traveled from mouth to mouth from the moment Candidate John Bricker, cracking at the P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman, used it fortnight ago. Delighted GOPsters played it to a fare-ye-well; perhaps they had hold of a really damaging weapon, a phrase that would turn out to be as telling as "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" proved to be in 1884, or "Turn the rascals...
...phrase especially hurt Chairman Bob Hannegan, who has no affection for Sidney Hillman. Trying to clear things up, Hannegan called in the press to say the President had never instructed him to "clear everything with Sidney...
Marshall Field's Chicago Sun announced last week that it will henceforth print a box score of Colonel McCormick's hates. First box showed that on Sept. 6 the Tribune carried ten "hate" stories against President Roosevelt and the Administration; two against Sidney Hillman, the C.I.O. and P.A.C.; none against Hitler and the Nazis; none against Hirohito and the Japs...
...made. So did Illinois' Dwight H. Green. And California's independent Governor Earl Warren got angry when his canned speech arrived in Sacramento just 24 hours before his broadcast. Warren, who goes along with California labor, got a text salted with attacks on "the Earl Browder-Sidney Hillman-Communist-allied Political Action Committee." Warren blue-penciled furiously. In Manhattan, red-faced GOPsters rushed out corrections...