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For eight years, Illinois' Congressman Edwin Martin Schaefer, usually camouflaged in a brown suit, has slipped in & out of the House chamber as inconspicuously as hot air. Never has he made a speech. With the rest of his State's delegation he sits quietly in a corner known...
> Nimblest of the three disturbers of the Schaefer peace was Shack-Dweller Henry Frees, a onetime acrobat, who once used an $800 settlement for an injury to his arm to run for mayor of Belleville, Ill. He lost both the $800 and the election, went back to his shack. Emerging...
The Wheeling "stogie" once achieved literary standing. When Rudyard Kipling wrote Captains Courageous he required something sufficiently powerful to make a worldlywise, traveled, smart-alec, young son of a rich American father so ghastly nauseated that he would fall overboard from an ocean liner in order, for purposes of the...
Behind him, in all probability, was his last real seagoing vacation before he and the U. S. people find out about Term III. Ahead of him were months of arduous labor in the White House: the burden of operating a vast, peaceable democracy in a war-gripped world, the problem...
Bar Franklin Roosevelt, "Honest Vic" has been for much of his 40-year official life the best all-around Democratic vote-getter. A ball of fire on the stump, old-timer Donahey has not once opened his jaws oratorically in the Senate since he was sworn in. A great believer...