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Having given these firm assurances to the Press in the afternoon, President Roosevelt spent the evening conferring with his campaign managers, Postmaster General Farley, Pressmaster General Michelson, Moneymaster General W. Forbes Morgan, and their underlings...
Hardly had Nominee Alf Landon's acceptance speech been broadcast (TIME, Aug. 3) than Franklin Roosevelt's ace political pressagent, Charles Michelson, began to plan to put this old political maxim into effect. For the occasion he arranged an hour's nation-wide radio hookup. For the job of demolishing Republican Landon he shrewdly picked six of the President's official inferiors and the Governor's official equals-six Democratic Governors, from six States geographically selected to enfilade Kansas from assorted distances and directions...
...only new meat in this Michelson feast of criticism was Governor Earle's reference to Nominee Landon's uncle as "the chief lobbyist of the Pennsylvania steel masters." A brother of Governor Landon's late mother, William T. Mossman has been public relations chief for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. for the past 25 years. Last week Governor Earle was not the only partisan who attempted to embarrass Governor Landon by lugging his lobbyist uncle irrelevantly into the campaign. Philip Murray, head of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and right-hand man of John L. Lewis...
...session's end Michelson-tutored Joe McDonald had presumably forecast the general lines of the forthcoming Democratic attack on the Landon record, and his Republican colleagues were referring to him as "Congressman Zioncheck...
...called the nation's attention to a few facts about Kansas. Most fun was had by Joe McDonald of Kansas City, blond, high-spirited Democratic leader of the Senate who lately journeyed to Washington to be coached for this occasion by shrewd Democratic Press agent Charles ("Smear Hoover") Michelson. Roaring with laughter and shouting across the chamber as he made his points, Senator McDonald gleefully recalled Nominee Landon's message to the Republican Convention proposing extension of Federal civil service...