Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director Dan Talbott and State Highway Commissioner Bob Humphreys are the active jockeys. Knowing well that behind Barkley would be all the power of Federal patronage, they organized the State's 7,500 jobholders into an efficient Chandler machine. Campaign contributions of 2% salary (as in the Townsend-McNutt machine over in Indiana) are expected. To compete with the enormous WPA and AAA influences for Barkley, a rural State road program this year provided jobs for 3,000 additional Chandler workers. Chandler supporters are this month distributing Old Age Benefit payments by hand instead of mail. To sellers...
Sirens screamed, 21 bombs (a Presidential salute) exploded, the band played A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, and the screaming and shouting, whistling and waving, yelling and yowling McNutt Democrats of Indiana indulged themselves in the first hysteria...
Senator Van Nuys also knew the rank & file of the McNutt-Townsend machine, knew how its appointees contribute 2% of their State salaries to the machine's treasury, how scandalous certain of its dealings -in liquor licenses, for example-could be made to look. Republicans began to say nice things about him: as an "independent" he would certainly split the Democratic vote, help a Republican...
This about-face resulted from no change in New Deal feeling. It was ordered in spite of Franklin Roosevelt by potent Paul McNutt. After a series of 10,000-mile telephone calls, High Commissioner McNutt decided that his own ambitions were more important than the President's purge. Defeat through division this autumn would weaken his machine. Van Nuys's charges of scandal might sully the fair McNutt name. The renomination of Frederick Van Nuys became an incident in the plans of McNutt...
While the resolutions of the convention were being read, came a dramatic pause. The resolutions chairman yielded his manuscript to burly, bull-voiced Frank McHale, original McNutt-for-President man, now Indiana's National Democratic Committeeman. Sonorously Mr. McHale intoned: "Paul V. McNutt has never failed his community, his State or his country. With him as the nominee for President of the United States our party can proceed with full consciousness that every promise will be kept, that each platform declaration will be respected and that the best interests of the people will be served. Therefore, we, the Democratic...