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...Grand Old Party of Lincoln, McKinley and Harding last week received the ultimate insult. In the American Magazine shrewd old Charles ("Charley the Mike") Michelson, ace Democratic press-agent whose propagandizing since 1928 gets an owl's share of credit for returning his Party to power and keeping it there, published a straight-faced article titled My Advice...
...Hearst technique of developing or buying top-flight writing talent was clearly reflected in the Examiner's roster of one-time contributors, including: Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Mark Twain, Gertrude Atherton, Richard Harding Davis, Kathleen Norris, Charles Michelson. Developed on the Examiner were Cartoonists "Tad" Dorgan, "Bud" Fisher, Homer Davenport. The Examiner first published Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe" and Staffwriter "Phinney" Thayer's "Casey at the Bat." Both were reprinted in the Examiners "Golden Jubilee Edition...
...Democratic Presidential Nominee James Middleton Cox, Massachusetts' Democratic Governor James Michael Curley, Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison, Michigan's Democratic Governor-Elect Frank Murphy, Democratic Treasurer of the U. S. William Alexander Julian, Democratic White House Secretaries Stephen Early & Marvin Mclntyre, Democratic Press-agent Charles Michelson and Republican also-ran Colonel William Franklin ("Frank") Knox...
...would soon be opened in Washington. No new strategy was this. It was exactly the course followed by Democratic Chairman John J. Raskob when, in 1928 after Al Smith's drubbing, in spite of a huge Democratic deficit, he opened permanent quarters in Washington, hired Press Agent Charles Michelson and set to work preparing Herbert Hoover's downfall. But there are notable differences: 1) Republicans will have difficulty in finding another Michelson, 2) John Hamilton, unlike John Raskob, has not great personal wealth with which to play sugar-daddy to his Party. Last week John Hamilton talked blithely...
That the politics in this bit of Rooseveltian history were not wholly on the Republican side became evident later in the week when none other than Press-agent Charles Michelson of the Democratic National Committee released extracts from the purported contract to confirm Son Elliott's version of its terms...