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Chubby-cheeked Oren Root Jr. had already written to all the Willkie clubs,* -urging them to keep their files and organization intact, stand by for orders. The orders came from Mr. Willkie: "Your function during the next four years is that of the loyal opposition...
...same car were political advisers: Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck; John Hollister of Cincinnati, ex-law partner of Senator Robert Taft; bumptious ex-Gagman Walter O'Keefe, drape-suited young Lawyer Oren Root Jr. Then Vincent Gengarelly, barber-valet-masseur; Willkie's press-relations man, quick-smiling, 30-year-old Lamoyne Jones, ex-crack police reporter of the New York Herald Tribune, who looks like a juvenile lead...
...spread a haze in the sky. The personal popularity of Louis Jefferson Brann, former Democratic Governor, candidate for U. S. Senator, also made Republican leaders reluctant to have the Maine vote used as an augury of what will happen in November in the rest of the country. Nevertheless young Oren Root Jr., head of the Associated Willkie Clubs, marched in to the State two days before the election and proclaimed: "What you do or do not do on Monday will profoundly affect Willkie's chances of victory in this nation in November. . . . For Wendell Willkie's sake...
...pipe, sweated, conferred with waves of visitors, planned a political safari. Said Mr. Pryor last week, giving the impression of a man waiting for the signal to set off a howitzer: "Wait until after September 15." Strictly amateur, the Associated Willkie Clubs, whooped up by 28-year-old Lawyer Oren Root Jr., were under full steam in over 900 cities...
...Root's clubs were doing very well, Mr. Root himself was not doing so well as a campaign organizer. Nominee Willkie announced after his conference with Messrs. Martin, Fletcher, Root, et al. that some bugs had been smoothed out. But he went out of his way to congratulate Oren Root for "a magnificent job." More important, Wendell Willkie pointedly indicated that his campaign will be kept in three distinct channels: 1) the Root clubs, with their appeal to the mass of non-partisan independents who twice elected Franklin Roosevelt, will again elect a President in 1940; 2) a rapidly...