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This coach's dream is Charley Parker of Jefferson High School, San Antonio. He graduates this spring, and hopes to get in some college training under the Army's A-12 program. His high-school coaches call him "the ideal athlete." He never breaks training, is president of the Student Council, and gets nothing less than As in his studies...
...Charley Mac," Republicans had a tactician who knew when to hold his pack, in order to let the Democrats knock each other out. The Democrats usually obliged, after the 1937 Supreme Court crisis. Others could make windmill orations or pass pious resolutions. Charley, imperturbable in his inevitable polka-dotted bow tie, held off cynically, did the real work in the Senate cloakroom. As Republican power grew, some wanted the Party to wage more courageous fight, but he was boss...
...Senators, and all who knew him, liked and respected him. Franklin Roosevelt did, and trusted Good Friend Charley implicitly. McNary was a public power enthusiast. He was a farm booster, with a name known to millions of farmers through his McNary-Haugen Act, forerunner of all farm subsidies. Not a man of international vision, but possessor of conscience and integrity, he veered back & forth on intervention before Pearl Harbor. These attitudes told as much of his origin as his thinking. He was born and all his life lived in Salem, Ore. (pop. 30,900), the town whence his grandfather...
Whoever succeeds McNary in the minority leadership, Republican tactics henceforth will be different. No one on the scene can rival Charley's cloakroom finesse; his likeliest successors are men more apt to give open battle on the floor. Three men are in line. One is Acting Leader Wallace White of Maine, who will get the job if the law of inertia applies. Another is Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, first in line by seniority and prestige, who may refuse it in order to keep his individual freedom. Third choice, favored by the Party's Young Turks, is Ohio...
Said "Bend on Charley notebook Four...