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...propaganda department the Democratic staff wholly outranks its opponents. Until two elections ago political publicity agents were usually picked from a stale selection of hacks for whom the Press had no jobs. In 1929 Jouett Shouse hired Charles Michelson, Washington correspondent of the late New York World. Michelson raised his job to a new importance. He wrote good speeches for party bigwigs, spread masterful anti-Republican innuendoes, taught the country to hate Herbert Hoover...
Already Pressagent Michelson has begun his 1936 work. Against such an able adversary, small, pompous Theodore A. ("Ted") Huntley. secretary to Pennsylvania's onetime Senator David A. Reed, whom the Republican National Committee hired last month to run its publicity, will have to hump himself as never before to make any sort of showing...
Some who make a habit of criticizing the "most influential man in America" assign to Frankfurter the authorship of Senator Robinson's reply to Al Smith's Liberty League speech--in spite of the fact that it is quite obvious to close observers that the ghost was Charles Michelson, ace New Deal publicity...
...Every inch of floor space was covered by newshawks waiting with pencils poised. The President's grin widened. There was no news, he announced, except-and he stopped to cast a roguish look over his shoulder at the tousled-headed Democratic National Committee publicity man- except that Charley Michelson needed a haircut...
Pressagent Michelson hesitated not an instant: Somebody in the Administration, he declared, must economize...