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...carried it by 280,000 in 1938, are wondering whether Wendell Willkie is the man who can carry it by 750,000 in November. They sat down in the Lodge room, munched at their 75? luncheon, while the ladies of the Eastern Star fluttered happily in the background. They watched the candidate, quick, easy, confident, listened to him, respectful of their judgments on the earthy matters they knew about, direct in his plumbings of their expertness. To the leaders, to Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Illinois's Senatorial candidate Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, who stopped by for a chat...
...need of unity in the face of Hitler's threat; 2) the Conservatives' overwhelming majority in the House of Commons. But since the illness of Conservative Leader Neville Chamberlain, another man has gradually usurped the actual leadership of the Party. He stays in the background and lets others drive, but he picks and orders the routes. That man is William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Says he: "Nobody would have believed it. It's as likely they'd have predicted I'd be Archbishop of Canterbury...
...arrival of General José Mijares Palencia and Eduardo Neri in San Antonio touched off rumors that a revolutionary council was actually being organized. Big-hipped, soft-spoken Pepe Palencia beat the Almazán drums for the election this summer. Less in the spotlight, more powerful from the background was chunky, balding Neri, head of Almazán's PRUN (Revolutionary Party of National Unification). If a junta was being formed, he was the man to form...
...child with different ideas was Sonja Willner, 13. She painted elves, fairies, dancers, U. S. children at their books. This was explained by the fact that Sonja Willner had a different background: she is a refugee from Austria...
...Giggling Professor. When the New Deal rediscovered "monopolies" in 1937-38 and picked Thurman Arnold to go after them, the appointment was regarded by old-fashioned trustbusters of the Borah school as a rather bad joke. Arnold was a cynic, a word-juggler, a clown. With a background of Wyoming sheepherding, Princeton ('11) and Harvard Law ('14), he had returned from the war to help General Smedley Butler drive the prostitutes from New Orleans. Said he: "I didn't even make a dent in the town." His cynicism and love of low comedy were augmented back...