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Crooner in Idaho. To run for the Senate against incumbent Republican John Thomas, onetime isolationist, Democrats picked Glenn Taylor, a cowboy crooner (TIME...
...very far. Most secondary schoolchildren, who knew far more about ancient Greece than about the U.S., believed "the best people withdrew from the colony and left the troublemakers to fight it out among themselves." And via Hollywood, they believed in gangster-ruled cities and an all-cowboy West...
...Arod, travel ahead in a sound truck, to act as circus advance men. They all put on a show: Glenn sings hillbilly songs, then starts his spiel. A rank isolationist in 1940, he plumps now for total war. In 1940 he called Franklin Roosevelt a bankers' tool; now Cowboy Glenn has nothing but praise for the President. The Cowboy wants a just peace, a planned post-war America...
...Silver Purchase Act as economic idiocy. He was Democratic county chairman in 1940 when Glenn Taylor won the nomination and at once resigned in disgust, announcing that he would support the Republican nominee, who was, said he, an economic illiterate but not quite a complete imbecile. He calls Cowboy Taylor a "goddam pettifogging demagogue...
Newshawks' prediction: Cowboy Glenn Taylor will get the nomination...