Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Hopkins was well known to every Term III Democrat: it traversed the plush gloom and sombre elegance of the old red-brick Blackstone Hotel; down the red-carpeted marble corridors to a spacious sitting room of candy-striped chairs, a crystal chandelier, a plumed, bustled lady of the English Regency, framed in the pink-&-gilt fireplace, delicately offering all comers a symbolic prize-a prickly rose. In this room operated dapper young Vic Sholis, Hopkins' secretary, and soft-spoken David K. Niles, the Janizariat's undercover man, who engineered the biggest financial coup of the 1936 campaign...
...sitting room was the real goal of the Democrats who trod the path of Term III, a tan-walled bedroom with green-spread twin beds, a screen, a telephone wire direct to the White House...
...forthright against sin as all platforms, and after New York's Senator Robert A. Wagner had read the whole document through, the delegates knuckled down to their task. Taking no chances whatever, Hopkins & Co. had commandeered Senator Lister Hill of Alabama to nominate Franklin Roosevelt for Term III. Balding, melodramatic Senator Hill laid his ears back and bayed in a manner so floridly reminiscent of Civil War Days that editorials in Southern newspapers blushed for Southern shame for days afterward...
...Willkie reaction to Franklin Roosevelt's dark and lofty acceptance of Nomination III (see p. 9) was on a higher plane. Candidate Willkie grinned down at 400 earthy cattlemen, sheep raisers, herders and employes in the Denver stockyards, said: "I shall make no pretense of noble motives. ... I frankly sought the opportunity to run for President on the Republican ticket because I have some deep-seated convictions I want to present . . . carry into execution. I know something about the democratic way of life . . . from experience. . . . I learned about civil liberties, not in textbooks, but in a hard struggle...
Result is that in spite of a socialite board of directors (including John Hay Whitney, Marshall Field III, Philip K. Wrigley, Lessing Rosenwald), PM has a leftist aroma. Fortnight ago, when a sheet was passed around newspaper offices, accusing various members of his staff by name of being Communists or Communist-sympathizers, Publisher Ingersoll published the charges, invited FBI to investigate...