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...Wisecrack...
...TIME, Dec. 14, Letters column, you credit the remark, "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont," to my beloved boss, James Aloysius Farley, and call it the best wisecrack of the 1936 campaign...
Near midnight on Nov. 3, I disgustedly turned off my radio and sat down to write my weekly column called "Hangovers" for my weekly country newspaper. The first words I set down were "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." I realized immediately that the wisecrack was so obvious that it was scarcely worth printing, but I let it ride because I could think of nothing better...
...best wisecrack of the 1936 campaign is credited by most qualified newshawks to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, who made it at a press conference in Democratic National Headquarters, Manhattan, day after the election...
...This wisecrack is credited with depriving New Hampshire's Governor Henry Styles Bridges of any chance to be nominated for Vice President. Thus Republican Bridges became a solid obstacle between Republican Moses and the latter's return to the Senate, from which he was swept in the Democratic landslide...