Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...district judge, is debarred from anti-Garner campaigning by the Hatch Act (no politicking for Federal employes). The most sincere New Dealer of the lot, Maury Maverick, has got himself into political trouble in Texas by espousing free speech for Communists and letting the home folks think he has "gone national." This week Mr. Maverick got into his worst trouble yet. Along with a local official and a former business agent of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, he was indicted by a Bexar County grand jury charged with using union contributions to pay poll taxes for some...
...farmers-we've got to get a-farmin'. We ain't goin' back on no Goddamned relief no more. . . ." Act II-"If you think anyone can make a livin' in this dump you're crazy...
...most tremendous musical failure of the 19th Century." Biggest jolt: a cool reference to sentimental Melodist Tschaikowsky as "the greatest symphonist of the 19th Century-after Beethoven." Of such critical jabs, close-collaborating Authors Brockway & Weinstock say simply: "If they start a controversy . . . so much the better. We think the future will bear them...
Thirty-year-old, baby-eyed Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) is head of the Boy Rangers, and a simpletonian Democrat. His fuzzy ideas make Governor Hopper (foxy-grandpopsical Guy Kibbee) and Political Boss Taylor (Edward Arnold) think Jeff the ideal Senator to cover up their graft...
...Bill's colleagues like his bluster and bravado. But whatever they think of Bill personally, Boston newsmen will admit that he has an immense following. It has been estimated that if Cunningham changed his job it would cost the Post 100,000 readers...