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...part of U. S. law and only Congress can suspend their operation. It was to win Congressional support well in advance that the President had summoned some Senators and Representatives to the White House, telephoned others. Adroitly he had averted political opposition by pitching his plan on a non-partisan level. In his statement he was able to list 21 Senators (twelve of them Democrats) and 18 Congressmen (four of them Democrats) by whom "this course of action has been approved." Next debt pay day is Dec. 15. Congress assembles Dec. 7. President Hoover was confident that, with the support...
...program conformed to this concept of youthful intelligence. In trite partisan speeches, Democrats and Progressives were flayed, the Republican tariff extolled, the Depression minimized, the Hoover policies lauded. Prohibition was silenced as an issue. Little or no effort was made by the oldsters who ran the meetings to freshen up political thought for the youngsters...
...denser Negro population than Mississippi (52%). Only Louisiana and South Carolina are more illiterate. Mississippi has the highest birth rate, lowest death rate in the South. It was the first state of the Union to ratify the 18th Amendment. It is cursed with the most virulent form of partisan Democratic politics. Its last great man: John Sharp Williams...
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-77) was no flower of Southern chivalry but a tough offshoot of Tennessee pioneers. He talked like a poor white; it is doubtful if he ever read a book on tactics; but he fought like the devil. Biographer Lytle, strong Forrest partisan, implies that if Forrest's abilities had been recognized in time the western campaign might have had a different outcome. But Forrest's commander was General Braxton Bragg, whom Forrest soon distrusted, finally despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders...
...club's report, the Mayor was quick to take advantage of the sympathy which they created for him among his liberty-loving fellow citizens. Nor was he unaware that Mr. Fox's Republican City Affairs Committee might be confused in the public mind with the non-partisan City Affairs Committee of Rabbi Wise and Preacher Holmes. On the same day that his vituperative retort to the Wise-Holmes complaint reached the Governor, the sensitive Mayor flayed his Republican adversaries...