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...There was one more river to cross. Seventeen men had been directly or indirectly promised the Vice-Presidency, or boosted for it, by some member of Hopkins & Co. These included: Cordell Hull, William B. Bankhead, James Byrnes. William O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson, Louis Johnson, Henry A. Wallace, Culbert Olson, Lloyd C. Stark, Sam Rayburn, Jesse H. Jones. Scott Lucas. Paul V. McNutt, Charles Sawyer...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull carefully hung up his grey tropical worsteds, drooped his black shoes outside the door of Compartment D, eased his lanky bones into bed. Stay-ups among his staff of 25 and the 14 accompanying newsmen clustered about the club-car radio, listening to the Democrats in Chicago nominate Henry Wallace for a job which Cordell Hull would not have (see p. 13). To Cordell Hull, the matter of who was going to run the U. S. Senate during the next four years was far less important than who was going to run the Western Hemisphere...
...Said the Manchester Guardian complacently: "It is almost certain that there are not 50 large transports in the Scheldt at present. . . . The slow-moving barges [from the Rhine] would take from 24 to 46 hours to make the crossing from Antwerp to Dover or to Hull, and as there would be hundreds of them they could hardly hope to escape detection. . . . They would cover so much sea area that our outpost vessels must run into them." The Guardian took comfort in the belief that the harbors at Boulogne, Calais, Zeebrugge and the Hook of Holland are so clogged with...
...minute last January, Boss Edward Hull Crump was Mayor of Memphis, Tenn. His sole official act was to cancel his city's invitation to the American Newspaper Guild to hold its seventh annual convention in Memphis. Said Boss Crump: "You will not be welcome...
...length, the whole of his narrative, with a strange symbolic radiance. At the end, the comet masked by storm, the ship helmed by a halfwit, he is wrecked. When he comes to, he, the halfwit, a dog, a cat, sit on the sand and gaze into the gashed hull. The beach is one intricate fabric of escaping footprints. The most valuable of the animals were insured; he is glad of their liberty. Into the sack that once carried his loving serpents he has scooped the black sand, richly loaded with titanium. It will be tested in Europe. Negresses will...