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...only partisan who attempted to embarrass Governor Landon by lugging his lobbyist uncle irrelevantly into the campaign. Philip Murray, head of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and right-hand man of John L. Lewis, who is supporting Franklin Roosevelt through Labor's Non-Partisan-League, published a telegram to Kansas' Governor...
...years of newspapering Forrest Davis had never before held down an executive job. Born in Indiana, this son of a Presbyterian minister gravitated to Manhattan, became the ace newshawk of the World-Telegram. Equally good at straight reporting or feature writing, he was given a roving commission for the Scripps-Howard chain last year. He had just finished a Midwest tour "to find out what America is really thinking about," when the Denver editorship came...
...Manhattan next day religion got into the campaign in a bigger way. Week before the New York World-Telegram had reported that a charge of anti-Semitism was being whispered against Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, based on assertions that Jews were ignored at the Cleveland convention, that no Jew had sat on the dais with the new chairman at a post-convention banquet for him in Manhattan. Last week newshawks asked John Hamilton about the rumors. Obviously primed with his points, if not with his metaphors, the jut-jawed Republican Chairman barked: "There is not an iota...
...Landon's closest approach to a revelation of his political views last week was in a telegram to a First Voters League in Manhattan. Observed the Republican Presidential nominee: "If we spend what we do not have today, we must pay the bill tomorrow...
...week Son Austen called on an audience of Tory imperialists to vow, in memory of the "first Englishman to see in his mind the British Empire as it is seen today in fact," that "not one yard of territory shall be torn from the Empire." Sir Austen read a telegram of congratulation from King Edward VIII. A portrait of Old Joe 50 ft. high was unveiled and the crowd could not help seeing the striking resemblance to Son Austen on the platform...