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There were few broadcasts and almost no mailings to drum home to voters that the supposedly anti-labor candidate had been endorsed by labor.1 Nor, of course, were voters or businessmen aware that Robert Oliver, organizing director for the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Texas, was quietly lining up “a number of local (CIO) unions” in Texas
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Americans cared about money. And power. And government.
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When her parents wanted to get her attention, they often rattled off three or four other names before finally coming up with the correct one, and most outsiders couldn’t remember her name at all.
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Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Altogether, Howe dispatched more than eleven thousand letters on FDR’s behalf.