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...reddish nose into it by stumping for Senator Harry S. Truman, elected six years ago by Kansas City's Boss Pendergast. It was evident that Bennett Clark did not enjoy backing Truman so much as he loved clapperclawing Truman's rival-stiff, Roman-nosed Governor Lloyd Crow Stark. Also to the aid of New Dealer Truman went New Deal Wheelhorse Alben Barkley. At a St. Louis campaign rally attended by 300 party hacks and laborites, he conferred the Roosevelt blessing on Candidate Truman. But Alben Barkley was not happy to find himself in the same camp with Champ...
Meantime Governor Stark kept his end up. He denounced Truman for his link with Boss Pendergast; for playing politics he denounced the third candidate, former U. S. District Attorney Maurice Milligan, who last year sent Boss Pendergast to prison. Lincolnesque Mr. Milligan, in turn, blazed away at Truman, charged him with having won his Senate seat in 1934 with the help of 60,000 fraudulent votes dug up by Pendergast; at Stark for sticking with Pendergast until Milligan sent the boss to jail...
Cordell Hull, maneuvering skillfully in Havana (see p. 20), and his Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle, are Franklin Roosevelt's mainstays on all-important Foreign Policy. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, the splintered War Department's Henry Stimson (see p. 20), and their ranking officers (Stark, Marshall), along with Industrialists William Knudsen and Edward Stettinius, Labor's Sidney Hillman, are often at the White House to talk and administer Defense (see p. 77). A curious, fateful fact about Franklin Roosevelt is that none of these men-not even Cordell Hull-belongs to the President...
...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...
...rather than work and who, through mere imprisonment, die in a few days "like fish in a bucket." Hardly has Don Narciso got his shore legs when he witnesses the burning alive of sixteen here tics; he sees next what happens to 20,000 Indians in spontaneous desperate rebellion. Stark naked, all of them, men, women and children, they advance in a brown wave, using stones and sharpened sticks, to dissolve into panic before the first volley from the crossbows. Narciso is enough a man of his time to get bloody excitement out of his first kills: when, with four...