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No one, least of all himself, need have been surprised that Maury was in trouble. Politics is a tough business, and Bexar County is no Sunday school. When Maury Maverick got licked for re-election to Congress, he started to come back by getting himself elected Mayor of San Antonio...
There is absolutely no question but what the Corporation should reverse the decision made by its trouble-shooter and clean-up man. Such a reversal is dictated not only by the poorness of Mr. Greene's argument but also by the expediency of calling off the dogs. A thousand years...
Last week U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy's clean-up man in Louisiana, Assistant Attorney General Oetje John Rogge, collared one of the Big Three. In New Orleans' Federal Court, slick, new-rich Seymour Weiss was convicted of using the mails to defraud, fined $2,000, sentenced...
Two years ago Franklin Roosevelt plucked pitcher-eared little Frank Ramsay McNinch from the Federal Power Commission to make him chairman of the turbulent Federal Communications Commission. McNinch's assignment was a clean-up job supposed to last about three months. Under Cleaner-Upper McNinch, FCC has been more...
Victorious Generalissimo Francisco Franco proclaimed over the Burgos radio at 2:20 p. m. on March 29 that the Spanish Civil War had officially ended. His troops had occupied Madrid, Valencia, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Jaén, Albacete-almost without resistance. Italian planes from Majorca had made a last bombing...