Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week Mr. Hoover had a whiz of a plot. Its characters were mostly people in the swarming ruck of New York City: an elevator mechanic, a telegraph office clerk, a baker, a telephone linesman, a chauffeur, a power company clerk, a tailor, a correspondence school salesman. Some belonged to the Army and Navy reserves or the National Guard; one was a captain. The props included twelve Springfield rifles, 3,500 rounds of ammunition reportedly stolen from National Guard armories, one long sword, 18 cans of cordite powder, a collection of soup and beer cans with accessories for turning them...
Candidate Gannett proposes to stake his campaign on the proposition that the New Deal should be pretty generally liquidated, that: "The nation cannot live half collectivist and half free." So said he this week at a monster testimonial dinner in Rochester's Powers Hotel, where his candidacy was formally announced. "I ask by means of this letter to be counted in," wrote upstate New York's potent Congressman James W. Wadsworth (see p. 18), whom Publisher Gannett helped turn out of the U. S. Senate in 1926. An interested if distant observer in Washington was Frank Gannett...
...Party in Pennsylvania thought they saw a chance for compromise if they would get Joseph F. Guffey out of the U. S. Senate. "I need Joe Guffey in the Senate," said President Roosevelt. "I suggest you leave him there." They did. Political war continued to rage in Pennsylvania. Last week, John B. Kelly, chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic Committee, went to the President to suggest a peace formula: get Joe Guffey not to run again for the Senate...
Much-loved and much-criticized is ubiquitous* Eleanor Roosevelt. But last week even the crustiest of Tory curmudgeons had to admit that she made sense when she told 300 Washington wives her cardinal rules for platform speaking, formed after 19 years of experience, and based on this primary principle, which gagsters at once figured would cut U. S. oratory by half...
...ubiquitous that a U . S. favorite gag last week was still the one about the man who came from a town so small he had to go to Washington to see Mrs. Roosevelt...