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...occasional leak disclosed the part the red-faced, blue-eyed, white-haired Vice President played around the Cabinet table. Significant is the fact, however, that after one of his discourses Franklin Roosevelt, a great giver of nicknames, dubbed him "Mr. Commonsense." Significant, too, are the things the stubby little Texan is generally given credit for having achieved within the Cabinet. He, as much as any one man, quashed the idea of armed U. S. intervention in Cuba when the Cabinet had it under consideration because of the series of Cuban revolutions in the autumn of 1933. Supposed dialog...
...unusual for TIME to carry a photo of a Negro, for hardly a week passes without such a picture being found in your pages. In the March 4 number alone, I counted at least four photos of Negroes, which I wager will raise the ire of many a good Texan, some of whom have not fully recovered from the shock given them when TIME referred to Hon. Arthur W. Mitchell as "gentleman.". . . THOMAS C. JERVAY Managing Editor The Cape Fear Journal Wilmington...
...elements of a rip-snorting class-conflict were present in the little town of Marked Tree in January when a youngster of 24 named Ward H. Rodgers, on the executive committee of the Union, addressed an outdoor gathering of hungry, disgruntled and dispossessed tenant farmers. Ward Rodgers, a Socialistic Texan with theological degrees from Vanderbilt and Boston Universities, was already in bad odor with the landlord class because he had been calling Negroes "mister." And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's. He was quoted...
Creator of Philbert is Frank Owen, 28, an easy-going smalltown Texan who rousted about in oil fields, refineries, lumber camps, until he got a job cartooning sports and editorials on the Dallas News. He went East, free-lanced for Judge, Life, Satevepost, New York American, landed a place on Collier's two years ago to do general cartooning. Philbert came to life when Cartoonist Owen discovered he "had been drawing him all the time and didn't know it." Many of his best ideas come from his pretty young wife, Swedish-born Vera Blomquist. The Owens live...
...husky corn-fed Texan named Anderson Baten retired to his Dallas cottage, opened the first volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and began reading about "AABENRAA, a town of Denmark." Two years later, without having skipped a word between, he came to "ZYGOTE, the biological term for the fertilized egg," closed the last volume, went prayerfully to bed. Next morning he arose at 6 a. m., took a five-mile walk with his wife. After breakfast he sat down at his desk in the centre of a horseshoe of book-stacked tables. When Anderson Baten left his study sometime between...