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Messrs. Martin and Fletcher did not have such a good time. Joe Martin wanted to subordinate bumpity young Oren Root Jr.'s 600 independent, crassly amateur Willkie-for-President Clubs to the regular G. O. P. organization. Lawyer Fletcher had a plan to get around the Hatch Act's $3,000,000 limitation on national-campaign expenditures by splitting up contributions among various candidates and State, local, national committees...
...town with Wendell Willkie came the three original members of the For-Willkie-Before-May-11-1940-club : 1) Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, gaunt, earnest journalist-philosopher who quit his job as managing editor of FORTUNE to devote himself to this man; 2) Oren Root Jr., young New York law clerk, who formed a Willkie-For-President club on his own hook and $150; 3) Charlton MacVeagh, a G.0.P. contact man who drafted himself...
...Oren Root Jr., a youthful lawyer, a grandnephew of the late Elihu Root, started a one-man campaign for Mr. Willkie, whom he had never met. Mr. Root's first step was to mail thousands of statements (each carrying spaces for 15 signatures) declaring the signers' enthusiasm for Mr. Willkie as President. Straightway he began to receive contributions. last week opened an office, announced he had already received 35,000 requests for "declarations." What did Mr. Willkie's Root intend to do with all these fertilizing signatures? Mr. Root had not yet decided...
...this juncture could scarcely have been improved upon by some playful New Deal imp. Instead of "liberal" Mr. Simpson they elected to Mr. Hilles' executive seat the apple-headed little gnome from Delaware, whom name-calling Harold Ickes calls "Proxy Dan, the Du Pont man"- ex-Senator Daniel Oren Hastings, than whom no man in Congress has a more reactionary record. As a sop to "liberals" they gave the one other executive vacancy to South Dakota's Harvey Jewett...
...Oren L. Kirklin...