Word: winrod
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Gerald B. Winrod, tract-selling Wichita evangelist whose "intolerance" (TIME, Aug. 1) would have made a splendid target for Democratic Senator George McGill this autumn should Mr. Winrod have been nominated. With two other Republican candidates up for the Senate, about 300,000 Republican votes were cast, or 140,000 more than Kansas Democrats have cast in their hottest Senatorial fights...
...Governor) Lawyer Payne H. Ratner of Parsons, an energetic friend of Alf ("Fire Belly") Landon and Republican National Chairman John Hamilton. Senator McGill's mate will be Governor Walter Huxman, whose renomination was unopposed, whose campaigning ability is not superlative. To Democrats, the defeat of "intolerant" Mr. Winrod and nomination of able Mr. Reed may well presage Senator McGill's downfall...
...saloonkeeper who became a preacher after his saloon, ''Old 410" (No. 410 East Douglas Street, Wichita), was smashed by Carrie Nation on one of her first rampages, Gerald Winrod was obscure until 1935 when, after a trip to Germany, he blossomed out as proprietor of the Capitol News & Feature Service of Washington, D. C., alleged by proletarians to be financed by German Nazi money and watched over by the German Embassy. Through The Defender (organ of Winrod's "Defenders of the Christian Faith"), which now claims 110,000 circulation, and his own big personal mailing list...
...politics, Gerald Winrod's fame dates from a day in 1937 when, driving his wife to Mexico for her health, he heard of Franklin Roosevelt's Court-packing plan over his automobile's radio. Immediately he telephoned back to Wichita, released a flood of anti-Court Plan pamphlets, threatened to snow Congress under with a million petitions...
Most likely beneficiary of this year's Winrod campaign appears to be colorless Democratic Senator George McGill. If Mr. Winrod wins the Republican nomination and leads what Kansas calls its "Brinkley vote"* through the wilderness, many a disgusted Kansas Republican would vote Democratic in November...