Word: peppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education and believes in his essential goodness; she closes her eyes to the fact that little Rosa Tench is Portius' child, and she expands with pride when Portius makes a fine speech. Portius is a stout character himself. He survives the cholera, though his only medicine is red pepper and asafetida pills, because he is too "preserved in alcohol to die." When he becomes a judge, agnostic and prankster that he is, he secretly replaces the court Bible with Arabian Nights, by which everyone swears as devoutly as before...
...great game of politics was being played without benefit of rules in Florida last week, and the knee-action and eye-gougings could be felt from Pensacola to Fort Lauderdale. Fast-talking George Smathers had learned the art of campaigning from Senator Claude Pepper. Running against the master (TIME, April 3), he showed that he had learned how to pour salt in Pepper's old wounds. Fishing out an old newspaper clipping at every campaign stop, Smathers read Pepper's reported 1946 advice to the U.S.: pray for Joseph Stalin because he is; the kind of man Americans...
...pray for Joe Stalin today?" Smathers would ask his audiences, and the angry "noes" sounded like votes. Pepper in turn called attention to Smathers' birthplace in Atlantic City, N.J., denounced him as a damyankee intruder. To which Smathers would answer that he himself was a University of Florida graduate, while Pepper deserted his native state to go north to Harvard. "Felix Frankfurter had nothing to do with my education," boomed Smathers. "Alger Hiss is no classmate of mine. I don't travel under the Crimson banner of Harvard...
...wouldn't die, nonetheless, and it deserved not to. According to the yarn, Smathers had a little speech for cracker voters, who were presumed not to know what the words meant except that they must be something bad. The speech went like this: "Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law, and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that...
Administration politicos, looking on from close at hand, at Key West, anxiously considered ways & means of helping Fair Dealer Pepper, who-though he is not beloved by them-has been useful. One helpful Administration gesture under consideration: to postpone a Senate vote on FEPC until after the Florida primary, so that Pepper, who has backed FEPC, will not have to cast so controversial a vote at so crucial a time. There was also talk of inviting Pepper down to Key West, to give him the benefit of shaking hands with the President before all of those newspaper cameras. Pepper badly...