The men from Missouri had wanted to be shown. Wendell Willkie waded into Missouri last week and gave them a sample of showmanship, sagacity and spunk. When he left he had: 1) laid down a well-hewn platform for 1944, which he could develop later, plank by plank, in further speeches; 2) proved to all other G.O.P. candidates that he is still the man they have to beat.
Wendell Willkie's Missouri mission was a tough one. First he had to show that he was no Tweedledum to Franklin Roosevelt's Tweedledee. He had to answer...
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