Word: hillmanism
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...Hillman (smoothly) : "I still believe that he would serve very advantageously as district attorney. He might even do as Governor when everybody's employed...
...made it quite clear that P.A.C. had never taken a step without the advice of counsel. On Mr. Hillman's testimony...
When the date of the 1944 Presidential election began to draw too close for such legal hairsplitting, Mr. Hillman had organized the non-labor National Citizens P.A.C. partially as a sort of holding company for campaign funds. This move satisfied the Hillman lawyers that the N.C.P.A.C. could boom the Roosevelt-Truman ticket as much as it liked and remain within: 1) the Hatch Act; 2) the Smith-Connally amendment to the Corrupt Practices...
...Questions? G.O.P. Congressmen who attempted airy political banter with suave Sidney Hillman, a veteran of 35 years of left-wing dialectics, found him one too many for them. Representative Clarence J. Brown, of Blanchester, Ohio (pop. 1,785), tried to poke fun at the P.A.C. claims to nonpartisanship. Said he: was it not true that Hillman's own New York local had supported Tom Dewey for district attorney...
...Hillman (even more politely) : "You must have missed Mr. Willkie...