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...luncheon, while the ladies of the Eastern Star fluttered happily in the background. They watched the candidate, quick, easy, confident, listened to him, respectful of their judgments on the earthy matters they knew about, direct in his plumbings of their expertness. To the leaders, to Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Illinois's Senatorial candidate Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, who stopped by for a chat, he appeared supremely confident that he knew what he was talking about...
Wheeler of Montana, Vandenberg of Michigan, Clark of Missouri cried that conscription was dictatorial, unnecessary, an Army scheme to make more generals and colonels, silly because the Atlantic still lay between the U. S. and Hitler. Ohio's plodding Taft did not deny that trained men were needed, proposed to get them by creating a volunteer corps of 1,250,000 trained reserves. Dug from the files of the New Hampshire Historical Society was a speech by Daniel Webster, opposing "Mr. Monroe's draft" in the third year of the War of 1812. Senators who heard the quoted...
Dully inept was the Congressional defense of conscription. Majority Leader Alben Barkley in the Senate trusted Wheeler, Vandenberg & Co. to wear themselves out with words, the Gallup Poll (71% favored draft for ages 18-32) to offset a continuing flood of anti-conscription mail. Accepting an amendment to up Army pay, "Dear Alben" muffed a cogent argument for compulsory service: that the alleged necessity for the increase augured ill for the Army's chances to get swarms of volunteers. No voice raised in Congress for conscription had the sting and vim which some anonymous satirist achieved last week...
...Roosevelt's Happy Days Are Here Again rocked Philadelphia's vast, egg-shaped Convention Hall. Slogans were as uninspiring as the candidates they sought to tout-slogans like "Trust-in-Taft," "A Top Scholar-Taft," "Do It With Dewey," "Gannett-America's Best Bet," and Vandenberg's labels on yellow fans, which came in handy in the hot Convention Hall-"Fan with...
During the last campaign Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg created a stir on the air waves by playing recordings of Franklin Roosevelt's pronouncements, rebutting them sharply as they scratched along. Squelched during this campaign will be little playlet parables against the New Deal. No more will Romeo tell Juliet that he cannot marry her because the WPA has bounced him for being a Republican. Agreeing that such tricks are unfair and unseemly, the National Association of Broadcasters last week voted to restrict political broadcasts to speeches, interviews, bona fide rallies...