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...years since Lewis was a miner. *In his heyday, in an abandoned committee room known as "The Boar's Nest," Garner regularly nicked Nick Longworth, Ogden Mills, Joe Cannon-all since dead. His biggest winnings in any one session: $15,000. Biggest loss in any one night: $6,800. Average over the years: unknown but believed very good...
Ashurst has been senior Senator from Arizona since its Statehood. He likes to hear himself called "the silver-tongued sunbeam of Painted Desert." His favorite anecdote surrounds his biggest moment: the day in 1912 when a Senate expecting to see an Arizona Senator sworn in wearing cowboy chaps, high-heeled boots and bandanna, was dazzled at the resplendent perfection of a tall gentleman impeccably garbed in sugar-scoop coat, striped trousers, wing collar, sawed-off vest and ribboned pince-nez. "I mowed them down," chuckles Ashurst...
...last week the U. S. Government was by way of becoming the biggest grocer of all time. Youngish (39) former cotton-bag-maker Milo Randolph Perkins, head of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, announced immediate expansion of the New Deal's orange-&-blue food stamp plan to Birmingham, Des Moines, Shawnee, Okla...
...vigorous leader in Canada has been Father Roy, 40, a onetime newsboy who belongs to the same religious order (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) as Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve. To Father Roy, 50,000 Canadian Jocists, aged 14 to 25, look for spiritual inspiration. The mass marriage was his biggest effort to date in providing it. It would, he thought, offset "all the unfavorable publicity that marriage is getting in the world's divorce courts...
...Today Wendell Willkie is the biggest political figure in U. S. business. Electric power (he calls it "par") is his business, but power in the general sense is a word that recurs often in his philosophy. Free enterprise, free competition and free trade are his tenets for raising the economic standards of society...