After eight months of noisily stirring the Republican Party into world-consciousness, the Chicago-born Republican Postwar Policy Association last week as noisily closed its doors. Out separate exits walked Publicity Director Leo Casey, to plump for Wendell Willkie for President, and Founder Deneen A. Watson, to stump for Eric A. Johnston for President.
Watson's endorsement caught Johnston in the middle of a speech to oilmen in Fort Worth. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's slick young (46) president stepped off the rostrum, gave the press a statement : "I am not a candidate for any public office. I do not want to live at...
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