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What brought these Senatorial headhunters together under the missionary banner of Mr. Hatch was a simple, heathenish fact: they were all interested in breaking up dangerously strong machines in their home States. Against him were arrayed veterans who have spent years of careful effort in building and oiling State machines...
Massachusetts. Last week a judiciously picked Democratic delegation of 72 men, carrying 34 votes (twelve one-third-votes at large; four half-votes in each of 15 districts), was formally lined up under the Term III banner, pledged to give lip service to Big Jim Farley, vote service to Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...treaty's terms were kept a military secret, but bragging Nazis let it be known that they expected the exchange of German manufactures, arms and industrial installations for Russian oil, wheat, cotton, fodder and manganese to reach more than $400,000,000-i.e., more than in 1931, the banner year for Soviet-German trade. Most people thought the Nazis were having day dreams...
...tune of The Star-Spangled Banner was borrowed from an old English drinking song called T. Anacreon in Heaven...
...composers was an Englishman. In 1792 James Hewitt settled in Manhattan, where he conducted concerts for the peruked and crinolined promenaders at Delacroix's Vaux Hall Gardens. So fervent became Britisher Hewitt's Americanism that he deplored the British alehouse origin of The Star-Spangled Banner,* wrote himself a brand-new musical setting for Francis Scott Key's words...