Word: birthrights
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Although Dick Kleberg was nominated for the Roosevelt Purge list this year he did not make it, partly because in the 14th District it would be hard to purge a King-Kleberg, partly be cause in Washington Rancher Kleberg has not sought to assert his birthright of leadership. Consensus: a conscientious, well-intentioned Congressman less unusual and less frigid than he looks, more independent than some of his colleagues because he is less ambitious and his interests are more special...
...mess of pottage for which Esau-in-the-Mass would exchange his birthright; it's the sheep's clothing enabling the wolf to slit the throats of the flock; it's a Nefarious Device to Destroy a Nation; it's the Nutty Dream of the alchemist, the Nebulous Desire of the marijuana victim; it's a pain in the neck and a sword in the heart...
...chance to become President of the U. S. is supposed to be the cherished birthright of every American child. In the case of ex-Child John L. Lewis this cherished birthright has become to many a "consuming ambition" and its exercise by this labor leader would be regarded as vaguely unAmerican. But the possibility of Mr. Lewis' offering himself as a candidate in 1940 is "a slim one indeed" according to Edward Levinson, well-informed Labor editor of the New York Post. In his book, Labor on the March,* published this week, Author Levinson ascribes high-minded purposes...
...unity and supremacy in Eastern Europe, can be permanently satisfied by stretches of jungle. In Mein Kampf Hitler puts his colonial aims as a poor second to the hopes of a Pan-Germanic Central Europe. During the negotiations Mussolini also will be working strenuously against Germany's selling her birthright for a mess of fever-ridden desert, for his desires for an Italianate Central Europe rest on the with-drawal of France and England behind the Alps. Redivision of the colonies between the "have" nations and the "havenots" thus seems not to be the touchstone of peace; ultimately Germany...
...figures or her facts, her narrative is cauliflower-ear-marked by the brutal truth, wears no wig. Beside Sister of the Road, such recent revelations as Mark Benney's Angels in Undress and John Worby's The Other Half, pale into comparative respectability. Bertha's birthright was a mess. Her mother, a handsome blonde who advocated and practiced free love on her father's Kansas farm, had four children, each by a different man, took to the road when Bertha was an infant. Bertha's "first playhouse was a box car." Her progressive education began...