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...Folks, I ain't askin' you to elect me to the United States Senate. I ain't got the high-toned eddication for the job to tell the truth. You all know me I'm jess a small town salesman with a smatterin' of law. All I know's how to keep my hands outa the other feller's pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The People Are You | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...taught at Chapel Hill from 1925 to 1930; "they're really doing things down there." At Chapel Hill, Jones met Paul Green, the Carolina dramatist; halfway through a performance of Green's "The Field God," in which Jones' daughter took part, Green stalked up to him and chortled: "Gawd ain't this a folk play, it's got hog-guts, killin' 'n everythin' bloody." Professor Jones will vehemently deny any charges that he ever wrote any folk drama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howard Mumford Jones | 3/10/1943 | See Source »

...Cockney is like Dickens' Mrs. 'arris. "There ain't no sich person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1943 | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

Montgomery swept past the white, empty shells of Tobruk's ruined houses. He rumbled through Ain el-Gazála, Dérna. He roared on past El Gubba, where the Silesian father in a flowing beard, who had clung to his parish through five occupations, intoned: "Religion is above wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Pilgrimage to Mareth | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

Dickie was fighting for one thing. I'm fighting for another. And they ain't so far apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: John Lewis Fights a Strike | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

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