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...month ago Boss Crump realized that he had picked a poor stumpster in Judge Mitchell. The judge was drawing no crowds, whipping up no enthusiasm. Kefauver was doing both-by attacking Boss Crump. Thereupon the Boss took over the real campaigning. He bought big ads in Tennessee dailies (most of which favor Kefauver), blasted away at Kefauver's "tainted Red record in Congress." Blustered Crump: "I'd as soon vote for Vito Marcantonio . . . the oxblood Red Communist of New York City." He likened Kefauver to "a pet coon" that turns its head in innocence, "while its foot...
...strictly to publicize Maine's resort attractions, that his Development Commission figured the State had got $600,000 worth of publicity out of the junket. Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate F. Harold Dubord made much of the fact that Ulysses S. Grant's granddaughter Princess Cantacuzene, an imported Republican stumpster, "didn't think enough of our boys to marry one of them but now she comes to tell us the Constitution is in danger." As the campaign entered its homestretch last week, ruddy, popular, back-slapping Governor Brann was given a good chance to beat sober Senator White. Otherwise...
...interpretation of why the U. S. went to war. By 1936 a vast army of people and politicians, still sick and sore with the memory of what their country had gone through, were ready to agree with him. In a time of national enthusiasm for peace and neutrality, any stumpster could cry that the U. S. went to war "to save the skins of its bankers." The opportunity to accuse munitions makers and international bankers of having shoved the U. S. into a foreign war for their own selfish interests was too good to be missed...
...Atlanta last week Franklin Roosevelt delivered what the 50,000 Georgians who turned out to hear him generally regarded as the first speech of his campaign for reelection. In finest fettle the President clearly demonstrated that after nearly three years in the White House he was still the master stumpster of 1932 who could sway a crowd or a country with his vibrant voice, his buoyant words. He denounced Republican prosperity; he mocked Herbert Hoover (without naming him); he had at his old enemies, the bankers, rich clubmen, budget balancers and the Cassandras of national insolvency; he skipped his failures...
...nation. . . . This result constitutes a substantial and successful national achievement. Slums Demolished. "Within sight of us today-just around the corner-" President Roosevelt paused significantly. The crowd roared, catching his imitation of his predecessor about to speak of prosperity. "Now we know how to get around the corner," added Stumpster Roosevelt owlishly. "-There stands a tribute to useful work under Government supervision, the first slum clearance and low-rent housing project. Here, at the request of the citizens of Atlanta, we have cleaned out nine square blocks of antiquated, squalid dwellings, for years a detriment to this community. Today those...