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...Government and its defense program next year. To an informal White House supper went Congressional chiefs of the revenue committees, Treasury and Budget Bureau heads: Mississippi's Pat Harrison, Georgia's Walter George, of Senate Finance; North Carolina's Robert Doughton, Tennessee's Jere Cooper, of House Ways & Means; Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Assistant Secretary John L. Sullivan; Budget Director Harold Smith. Their problem was to raise a hoped-for $10,000,000,000 of Federal revenue for fiscal 1942, as against fiscal 1941's expected $7,000,000,000. On coming out, stogie...
...weeks police haven't let anybody come in the place." Crump cops still blockaded Martin's drugstore. It was plain to everyone in Memphis last week that Boss Crump did not want any more Negro Republican bosses around. Growled Crump's Holy Joe: "Governor [Prentice] Cooper was right when he said, 'This is a white man's country...
...Westerner (Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport; TIME...
...reverse of this negative hatred of sham and lies is a quality that has helped to make Kenneth Roberts the finest U. S. historical novelist since James Fenimore Cooper* his respect for cold facts. His tirelessness in tracking down historical obscurities (he is probably the world's No. 1 literary detective), his fearlessness in publishing what he finds, have resulted in some shocking reversals of U. S. cultural myths. In two of his books, Roberts has heroized Traitor Benedict Arnold. This week the same qualities resulted in another first-class historical shocker. Oliver Wiswell is a sustained and uncompromising...
...Asked: "How do you feel when your books are compared to those of Fenimore Cooper?", Roberts snapped: "It irritates me almost beyond endurance...