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...clock. It stood the test of daylight. It pleased both the FCC and the Office of Censorship. It delighted Roos Bros, who, in a trial poll on the propriety of the program, got 97% approval. The poll's heavy mailbag indicated that the program would collect a sizable audience...
After staggering through this night marsh inning, which saw the Stablemen collect six singles, a walk, two stolen bases, and a home run, the Jumbo pitcher, Kidder, settled down and hurled two-hit ball over the last four frames. But the damage was done, and the Stahlmen had clinched their third straight victory...
...setting up a National Citizens Political Action Committee, studded with the names of radicals, movie stars, authors and liberals of all shades that ranged from George Norris to Paul Robeson.* Partly the reason for this was to get around the Smith-Connally Act by having the new committee collect and disburse contributions. Partly the reason was that shrewd Sidney Hillman, looking ahead, wants to get a broader base for his party than labor unions-just as the British Labor Party gradually came to include peers and peeresses, from Lady Noel-Buxton to the late Lord Wedgewood...
This group hopes to collect and spend up to $3,000,000, the legal limit. This will be raised by passing the hat and by making appeals in newspaper advertisements. But just to make sure, P.A.C. has passed down word that it expects at least $1 from each C.I.O. member. A slogan already in vogue : "A Buck for Roosevelt." Most of this money will indeed go for the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt, for P.A.C.'s main strength will be thrown into the Fourth Term effort...
...years as a city official, Supervisor McSheehy took pride in his oratorical blockbusters. He boasted that one reporter was permanently assigned to collect each day's most glaring and improbable McSheehyisms. A belligerent, charming, oldfashioned, long-winded politician who loved the sound of his own voice, McSheehy orated on & on-and was loved for his majesty of phrasing. Students of metaphor-mixing compared him to Philadelphia's famed ex-Councilman Charles Pommer, a slapdash stylist with a less subtle ear ("I have always been man enough to stand on my own two shoulders"-TIME...