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...company with Cinemactors Helen Gahagan and Melvyn Douglas, she saw Okies at home: overalled migrant farmers, their wives and children in poor Sunday best, in squatters' camps by roadsides, private camps on big farms. U.S. Government camps and a Federal cooperative farm. "My, ain't they nice!" said a migrant wife at Visalia, admiring Mrs. Roosevelt's manicure hands (see cut). " A fine lady," said Mrs. W.N. Pace. "She's nice looking, too-just as homey...
...occured in the general course of my business when I have guessed wrong or moved too slow. A young boy called up from Oklahoma City-and wants to break in roughnecking and be an oil man. The boy is lucky as hell in not knowing that digging oil wells ain't exactly playing Ping Pong. I kind of admire that boy. It don't seem so long ago that I was riding freights and had wrinkles in my belly too. But they all came...
...Louis Johnson, who used to push Mr. Woodring around without mercy, cordially aided the Secretary during his testimony last week. This change did not surprise those who had seen hanging in Mr. Johnson's office a sign: "We ain't mad with nobody...
...hundred-fifty-pound Mr. Rosselli refused to answer questions on the business census (already under way). Rosselli's story: "This Girman he comes in. He says, 'Where you been? Every day I go to your store to ask you census but you ain't there.' I explain I got a store at Harvard [Ill.] too. Then he get abusive. He get hold of me by shirt and shook me and I shook him." Girman's version: "Rosselli didn't want to answer any of the questions and finally took after me and chased...
Pure experience ain't enough...