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Stop Willkie. The men who would stop Willkie agreed on everything except the man who could stop Willkie. On the smear level, ex-Akron Mayor C. Nelson Sparks published a bitter polemic asserting that international bankers and utilities magnates had engineered Willkie's 1940 nomination. The faded sunflower, 1936 Nominee Alf Landon, pictured for freshmen G.O.P. Congressmen his own ideal candidate, who could not possibly have been confused with Wendell Willkie. The general anti-Willkie strategy: don't commit now, wait until convention time...
...industry's plea that it be regulated solely by the States was the Insurance Executive Association's president and chief spokesman, Edward L. Williams. Lawyer Williams, whose 25 years of Manhattan practice have not dented his Carolina drawl, was all set to sound off about ''smear campaigns" and "lies."* But shrewd Joe O'Mahoney snapped him off when he had no more than shouted "They is none" in answer to a query about the slush fund. The Senator was more interested in other facts. Some of the facts he was after...
...Publisher Silliman Evans finally pot ripsnorting mad. Sun men went out to investigate. The usually meek Sun thereupon came out with these headlines: LABOR ASSAILS TRIBUNE SMEAR and TRIBUNE LIES. . . . Said the Sun: The Tribune's campaign was a "rotten and reckless piece of work ... a giant fake" born of the "fevered delusions and prejudices" of the Tribune's "hate-filled" Publisher Robert R. McCormick...
...Hill" smear campaign. But the other candidates were too busy smearing each other; and Hearst papers, while supporting Rossi, kept their gloves...
...slow heart that beats 55 instead of the normal 75 times a minute. This kept him out of World War I when he tried to enlist-until his pastor had him ordained so that he could take a chaplain's commission. Political opponents have tried without success to smear him as a draft dodger. Otherwise the slow heart bothers no one but doctors feeling the Bricker pulse for the first time...