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Chairman's Progress. Harrison Spangler has been a stanch Republican wheel horse* all his adult life. Only once did he slip his halter-when he became a Bull Mooser in 1912. He worked up through precinct, county and district jobs to become National Committeeman in 1931. In 1936 he bossed Alf Landon's Chicago headquarters. In 1940 he backed Senator Taft's Presidential aspirations...
...French troops in North Africa. Then, in an announcement broadcast by the Algiers radio, he took over the civil administration of the colonies in the name of Marshal Pétain-and with the approval of the U.S. authorities. He set up his own military command under the stanch old soldier and escapist General Henri Honoré Giraud (TIME, Nov. 16). Still in the name of Marshal Pétain, a virtual prisoner now in his own capital of Vichy, still with the approval of the U.S. commanders, an administration took form in North Africa under this former collaborator with...
House Majority Leader John W. Mc-Cormack went on the air with a plea for Democratic victory, Speaker Sam Rayburn with a stanch defense of the Congress. Before week's end most of the party's bigwigs would be insisting that this is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party: Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley in Illinois and Michigan, Senator Albert B. Chandler in Illinois, Senator Claude Pepper in California, Senator Robert F. Wagner in Rhode Island, Senator Lister Hill in New Jersey...
...Stanch, dignified old War Secretary Henry Stimson had only scorn for enthusiasts of dirty commando tactics. At Randolph Field, Tex. last week he warned cadets: "You must go into battle to fight with the skill and courage of the Axis, but not with their cruelty and brutality. When you go into battle you will be equipped with the finest material an enlightened government can provide. But in addition to this, you must be brave, and as representatives of a free republic you will have an indefinable something that your enemies don't have and never will possess...
...Gallup poll showed Republican Thomas E. Dewey leading the field with 53% of the votes to 37% for Bennett and 10% for the American Labor Party's Dean Alfange, who claimed to be "the only New Deal candidate." But the same poll showed that many a stanch Republican who could not stomach ambitious Tom Dewey was swinging into the Bennett camp-on the theory that a vote for Bennett was also a vote against Roosevelt. The only way Franklin Roosevelt could really help Jack Bennett was to sway labor's votes away from Alfange, without disturbing the Republican...