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Lehman's withdrawal left in the Democratic saddle onetime Postmaster General James A. Farley, who has most of New York's Irish county leaders at his stirrup. Now anti-Third-Termer Farley had a good chance to name his own candidate at the Democratic primary convention in September. Right now Farley's candidate is Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., an honest, painstaking administrator who makes neither mistakes nor vote-catching headlines...
...Lecturing on civilian defense, Colonel Farraday "showed us how to work a stirrup pump and advised us all to get one, adding that there are none to be had anywhere just now. He also explained how to put up an Anderson steel shelter and said that none were being issued in this part of the country...
With the Vicar's stirrup pump, a pitchfork and a spade
Averaging about 60 miles a day, the Presidential yacht Potomac, escorted by the destroyer U.S.S. Benson, slid away from the ship lanes, around Great Isaac Island, Great Stirrup Cay, Mangrove Cay and Grand Bahama, little paradises of white beaches, tropical palms and turquoise water. Adviser Hopkins landed a 4-foot, 25-lb. kingfish; Secretary Stephen T. Early hooked an 80-lb. shark...
...With stirrup pump on his arm, tin hat on his head, but without his celebrated beard, Cartoonist David Low, whose war with the dictators began long before Britain's, was caught by a photographer padding patriotically along his London fire-watch beat...