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...Attorney General Robert Jackson, 165 Ibs.; New York's Representative Bruce Barton, 174; Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, 195; Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas, 185; Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, 205; Federal Security Administrator Paul Varies McNutt, 195; Michigan's Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 180; Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Holman Jones, 230; Manhattan District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, 150. Each gave a five-minute address (off the record) on "Reasons Why I Am Not Qualified To Be President." Then all posed happily together...
...GOPresidential scramble, big problem of Messrs. Arthur Vandenberg and Robert Taft has been not to let young Thomas Dewey get too far ahead. For many a week Candidates Taft & Vandenberg have relied comfortably on their advisers' assurance that "Buster" Dewey was a natural for the Vice-Presidency, was not a serious contender...
...harder to take such a rosy view. Mr. Dewey has had, will get headlines galore. Wisconsin's primary comes April 2. Last week Mr. Taft quietly avoided entering the Wisconsin primary. "Deal!" shouted Deweyites. "A clip in the neck for Buster," smiled the wise boys. Senator Vandenberg is strong in Wisconsin (only primary he has entered). Assumption was that Senator Taft might split the Vandenberg vote. Solemnly Messrs. Taft & Vandenberg denied that they had consulted each other...
There's little that is revolutionary in the YCL circular. In fact, even such a conservative as Mr. Vandenberg could probably read most of it without a change of pulse. Anyone can watch the stock market reports, and recent activities in some key industries such as steel and machine tools, and comparing these indices with the war news, conclude that American business is flirting with war profits. It doesn't take a clairvoyant, or a Marxist, to see that last September's Neutrality Act fitted in beautifully with the desires of American big business. And a nation taught to recoil...
...sold it to the San Francisco mint. First gold shipped directly from Russia to the U. S. since 1937, it was a mere twentieth of the $101,900,000 of Russian gold bought by the U. S. (through other countries) in that time. Kim's arrival served Senator Vandenberg with occasion for lambasting the Administration's gold policy ("Folly ... we do not want the gold") on the floor of the Senate. But to newsmen it served to spotlight the surprising trend of U.S.-Soviet trade...