National Affairs: Good Soldier

For Vice President Republicans needed: a man who favored Federal power, a Westerner, a farmer, a lifelong Republican, a seasoned politician. Quick as a wink, in one ballot, they named Charles Linza McNary of Oregon.

Tall, trig, suave, 66, Charles McNary has been in politics 34 years, spent 23 of them in the U. S. Senate. No one in the G. O. P. is better qualified to help Novice Willkie through the guiles and intricacies he would face in Washington. Easygoing Senator McNary, leader of the minority, has won many a triumph himself with nothing up his sleeve but pure, political cunning.

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