Word: willkiemen
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...long-dormant Willkiemen finally began to strike back. On the eve of this week's meeting of the G.O.P. National Committee, Vermont's granite-jawed Governor William H. Wills went on a national radio hookup to hit hard at those GOPsters whose first aim in 1944 is to stop Wendell Willkie...
Would the Willkie wing secede from the Party if Willkie fails of the nomination? The threat was hardly that strong; but it served notice on the G.O.P. National Committee that the Willkiemen will fight for every tactical advantage. At Chicago this week they had given in on one point: the choice of Chicago as the convention city. They won another, perhaps more important: setting of an (early convention date, probably June 26. For the Willkiemen figure they will need months of work to reorganize the G.O.P., tossing overboard National Chairman Harrison Spangler and friends...
...kept out by a 4? tariff; since Chilean copper is priced in U. S. ports at 10? a pound, it cannot compete with domestic when domestic is less than 14?. First to plump for tariff reduction in the present emergency was one of the trade's stanchest Willkiemen, blond, conservative Fabricator C. Donald Dallas of Revere Copper and Brass, Inc. On the very September day that Wendell Willkie spoke against low copper prices in Anaconda's Butte, Fabricator Dallas spoke for a 12? ceiling in order to head off an inflationary spiral. He advised dropping the tariff altogether...
...issue had come clear. Partisan Willkiemen saw it as a choice between freedom and collectivism; partisan Rooseveltians saw it as an effort by a Wall Street wolf to don New Deal lamb's wool. The temperate saw it, as Columnist Clapper had clearly stated it, as a struggle between two basic philosophies...
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