Candidate Says "Would Only Be Waste of Time New York, Aug. 26.
Mr. Wendell Willkie, Republican Presidential candidate, today rejected Mr. Paul V. McNutt as a substitute for President Roosevelt in a proposed series of debates on the New Deal.
Mr. Willkie said such a debate with Mr. McNutt, the Federal Security Administrator and former High Commissioner for the Philippines, would-be a "mere waste of time."
Mr. Willkie jibed Mr. Roosevelt for his refuse] to meet him in a series of public debates on the New Deal. He said the President apparently has time to make only "non-political" dedicatory addresses—United Press.
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