Word: kelland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arizona's wizened, choleric Clarence Pudington Kelland took it from there. Said Kelland: "Scott . . . is a symbol of the ineptitude and of the betrayal of the Republican Party . . . He was only a ghost wandering around looking for a campaign to haunt." Iowa's Harrison Spangler, onetime national chairman, was next...
...positive was pugnacious old Clarence Budington Kelland, the slick fictioneer who is also national committeeman from Arizona-a part of the country where dinosaur relics are still found. One day last week, Bud Kelland delivered himself of a blast. Said he: "Dewey's campaign was smug, arrogant, stupid, and supercilious ... It was a contemptuous campaign, contemptuous alike to our antagonists and to our friends. The Albany group proved themselves to be geniuses in the art of stirring up an avalanche of lethargy. No issue was stated or faced." What was needed, said Kelland, was a "housecleaning from...
...There was little doubt about the kind of housecleaning Kelland had in mind. In his eyes-and in the eyes of the G.O.P. Old Guard-Tom Dewey and Earl Warren are pseudo-New Dealers and therefore not good Republicans...
...Kelland & Co. had some support from the lower echelons. Some 500 Southern California Republicans, meeting at Alhambra, Calif, last week, attacked Warren's "nonpartisanship," and called for the elimination of the state's cross-filing system "so we will be sure candidates who run for public office on the Republican ticket shall subscribe to the principles of real Republicanism." Some other Old Guardsmen kept their sense of humor. Said one: "These boys have wrecked the party in three different national elections. Now it's only fair to give us a chance to wreck...
...feeding into the Post the biggest of the nation's bylines, Lorimer made it the biggest nickel's worth on the market. Contributors ranged from Jack London, Rex Beach, Irvin Cobb and Ring Lardner to such post-World War I stars as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clarence Budington Kelland, Katharine Brush and J. P. Marquand. What they gave the Post was not always their best, but it was their slickest, and it was good enough to push circulation beyond...