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Eight short months ago, Paul Vories McNutt was a Democratic hotshot. He placed well up on Pollster Gallup's popularity indexes, was known to one & all as a potent Presidential possibility. Last week, a Washington mob of political lynchers and character assassins, breathing heavily, stepped back from Mr. McNutt's mangled remains. There on the ground, they hoped, lay all that was Presidential of handsome Paul McNutt...
Week after week columnists gave loud hushes, hinted that the next crashing sound would come from the Treasury's income-tax investigation of Indiana's famed Two-Per-Cent Club. One U. S. magazine after another searingly profiled Mr. McNutt, as with blowtorches. Dry-tongued Alva Johnston smilingly cut Mr. McNutt's throat from ear to ear in last week's Saturday Evening Post...
Forthright Columnist Raymond Clapper lifted a lonely voice against Mr. McNutt's taking off: "Underground scandal of Washington . . . slow-motion assassination . . . major campaign atrocity . . . torture . . . poison-gas rumors . . . [Treasury] investigation about as secret as Mr. Roosevelt's celebrated cigaret-holder . . . crucifying...
...pounds of potential candidates for President: U. S. Attorney General Robert Jackson, 165 Ibs.; New York's Representative Bruce Barton, 174; Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, 195; Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas, 185; Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, 205; Federal Security Administrator Paul Varies McNutt, 195; Michigan's Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 180; Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Holman Jones, 230; Manhattan District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, 150. Each gave a five-minute address (off the record) on "Reasons Why I Am Not Qualified To Be President." Then all posed happily together...
...gums with the Term III mystery. Mr. Roosevelt was interested to read that he had said flatly: he would not run again unless the Germans overrun England; that Cordell Hull is his choice for successor, is safe, can be elected; that the Vice Presidency lay between Bob Jackson, Paul McNutt, Burt Wheeler; that Jim Farley would not be a sound Vice Presidential candidate on a Hull ticket. Mr. Roosevelt supposedly said that Farley "has done more for me politically than any other living person, not even excepting my wife." But people might "say we were using Cordell Hull...