Word: waltman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First hint that something unpleasant was a-brewing for Browder & Co. came via the Republican National Committee's alert publicity man, Franklyn Waltman. In the name of Republican Congressman (and Dies Committeeman) John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, Mr. Waltman handed the following poison-ivy bouquet to Attorney General Frank Murphy: "Our dynamic attorney general, who has been so enthusiastically and tirelessly swooping by airplane all over the country in pursuit of lesser violators of the law . . . has been strangely indifferent and listless in the case of Browder. . . . Even Browder must be surprised, perhaps slightly contemptuous. . . ." Thereupon a spokesman...
They were the Democratic National Committee's brilliant chief press agent, Charles Michelson, whose first feat was to smear Hoover, and his G. O. P. counterpart, Franklyn Thomas Waltman Jr. Dark, 35-year-old Republican Waltman paid elaborate tribute to the libertarian legacy of Democratic Patron Saint Thomas Jefferson, worked himself into oratorical fervor: "We recall Jefferson's words tonight, not solely out of academic interest in a mighty battle which was won in behalf of the liberties of Americans, but because once again in this country, as abroad, freedom of press and freedom of speech is under...
...Democrat Michelson was thus completing the cycle from high-powered mud slinging as an "out" in 1932 to embarrassed fog-dispelling as an "in" in 1938, the cycle was officially recognized by the Republican National Committee. Appointed Republican publicity director was short, burly, bristle-lipped Columnist Franklyn Waltman of the Washington Post, who lost his early enthusiasm for the Roosevelt Administration over the Court...
Plan and has been lambasting it vigorously ever since. At the National Press Club in Washington, bar gossips predicted that Out Waltman, who will get $20,000 a year as compared with In Michelson's $25,000, would prove a well qualified mudslinger...