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When Governor McNutt, forbidden by Indiana's Constitution to succeed himself, went to the Philippines last spring, he left behind him one of the most formidable State political machines in the U. S. Main significance of Senator Minton's sudden McNutt-for-President boom last week was to suggest not only that Commissioner McNutt was still running his machine but that the machine was in good repair. Last month Commissioner McNutt's "administrative assistant" and general factotum, 33-year-old Wayne Coy, flew from Manila to the U. S. A slim, energetic young man, whose eyebrow mustache...
...Manila last week, U. S. High Commissioner Paul Yories McNutt, Indiana's onetime (1933-37) Governor, was busy being polite to polite Philippine President Manuel Quezon. During his five months' junket to the U. S. and Europe Commissioner McNutt had attempted to demote President Quezon down the Manila coast list (TIME, May 31). Meanwhile in the U. S., Commissioner McNutt's good friend and political ally, Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton, was busy announcing that High Commissioner McNutt would make in 1940 an ideal candidate for President...
Before he left the U. S., Commissioner McNutt had picked and seen installed as his successor M. Clifford Townsend, who is currently building a strong political machine of his own. Recently Governor Townsend. like Senator Minton strongly pro-New Deal, predicted that when Indiana's anti-New Deal Senator Frederick Van Nuys came up for re-election in 1938 he would be roundly defeated. Last week Senator Van Nuys seized the opportunity given him by his Senatorial colleague to make it clear that if he was in the bad graces of Governor McNutt's successor, he still hoped...
...Senator is a witness to the irreproachable character of every other Senator. Both Senators had been bulwarks of the New Deal even unto the last ditch of the Court Plan. But Sherman Minton had not reached the Senate until the New Deal was two years old. Besides, the droll McNutt machine had put Sherman Minton into office while Hugo Black was beholden to no machine except his own, grounded in the Alabama backwoods whence he sprang. His mind made up, Franklin Roosevelt wrote in longhand his long-awaited message to the Senate last week: "I nominate Hugo L. Black...
Said Assemblyman Francisco Lavides: "Frankly, McNutt is an enigma...