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...broad and carefully designed base. Tom Dewey's first and fundamental job now was to do the very thing which Wendell Willkie had neglected during the key July-August period of the 1940 campaign-to organize, incite and generally set in motion the thousands of state, county and precinct Republican political organizations...
...Walden, Negro Atlanta attorney and State head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, appeared at Precinct B. His own precinct, where he votes regularly in general elections, was in a Negro neighborhood. It was closed for the Democratic primaries. When Lawyer Walden gave his name and address, he was told, "That's in Precinct 3-B. I'm sorry, but we have no one listed for voting at that address." He argued. O. L. Walker, election official, said firmly: "This primary is for white voters only." Both sides were careful, softspoken, scrupulously polite...
...being given too much credit. John Costello was beaten largely by tough-minded Teamster Dave Beck's A. F. of L. machine, which makes the P.A.C. look like innocent little Baptist truants about to squander their collection money on ice cream sodas. (West Coast Teamster leaders study precinct records: any member who fails to vote loses his union membership, which means losing...
...Education, of Course." Phil Murray, speaking last week to the clothing workers, set the 1944 goal of the Political Action Committee, and gingerly phrased its methods: "If you roll up your sleeves, get Roosevelt to run, and fight in every precinct to get him elected-I mean by processes of education, of course-then there will be no doubt of the result...
There is indeed nothing novel in the actual finger-printing process for V-12 men who smudge on the dotted line for monthly base pay minus deductions, but in the line of more advanced studies experts in the numerous precinct stations stand ready to demonstrate this and similar scientific police methods...