Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stumping for nomination as Governor; a trio wrangling over a Senatorship. The nation watched the trio for in it was Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, 74, dean of Senate Democrats (30 years), upon whose classic brow Franklin Roosevelt had placed his angry Purge mark. Governor Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston, 41, was the Purge's agent and candidate. Third man was State Senator Edgar A. Brown. 50, able parliamentarian, former Speaker of the South Carolina House, who in 1926 came within 5,000 votes of unseating Senator "Cotton Ed." Obedient to Democratic custom, these three toured the State together...
...Last week Mr. Smith was angrily explaining that the President had been misinformed: his reference to life on 50? a day was "for illustration" only in discussing Wages & Hours. South Carolina's best newspapers all believed him, quoted the speech to help him prove Candidate Johnston a misinformer, and the 50? issue became a boomerang to improve, instead of diminish, "Cotton Ed's" chance of a sixth consecutive term...
...Writer Johnston insinuated that, after three false starts in insurance, Son James's ultimate success was entirely due to his father's becoming President. Replies:" Sure, I got into places I never would have if I wasn't the son of the President. . . . But, son or no son, I got tossed out a lot too. Listen, fellow, prospects don't wilt just because you're the son of the President. Try it sometime...
...Writer Johnston charged that many of Son James's accounts were "twisted" away from other agents by his political potential. Reply: "It has never been suggested to me in any form, directly or indirectly, that I intercede for a client or a prospect in any Government branch. . . . And this has surprised me. . . . And naturally I have never suggested to any client . . .that I might exert political influence in his behalf...
...Writer Johnston called James Roosevelt "by a wide margin the biggest whiskey-insurance man in America." Reply: Roosevelt & Sargent never insured "so much as a bottle of whiskey imported into the United States." But their National Distillers Products Corp. account blankets all that big company's plants & stocks...