SOUNDING OFF: Sounding Off

Republican Roosevelt. Unimportant file-closer in G. O. P. ranks, but still stumping loyally along for the party that offers him never even a dogcatcher's nomination, Colonel Teddy Jr. pounded podiums, roared that a Third Term for his distant relation would "destroy our national unity. . . . [The New Deal has] coddled Communists [and is] shot through with Communists or fellow travelers. . . . Mr. Roosevelt has fostered this cancerous growth. . . . He will never remove it. We must remove him."

Republican Dewey. "We have practically no tanks. . . . Billions for boondoggling but not for...

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