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...shown the same insight and judgment in political ventures. As boss of the America First Committee in the early days of World War II, Wood gathered together some sincere men who thought they could keep the U.S. out of the war. But the committee also attracted a rag, tag & bobtail of anti-Semites, pro-Nazis and others whom Wood now sadly recalls as "crackpots." Since those days, Wood has tempered his economic nationalism and is no longer sure that the Americas can let the rest of the world go hang. He is still a bear on Europe. He thinks Europe...
...Pedigree. But the Bull of 1950 had an entirely different pedigree from the 1929 breed. This time there was no bobtail following of shoeshine boys, elevator operators and other shoestring speculators trying to make a killing with 90% of their stock bought on credit. Tightening-up of margins had ended that. Nor did the Bull of 1950 look like the 1946 animal, when the market was overrun with speculators, the easy-come, easy-go war rich and black-marketeers. This time the bull had fattened on the cash of those who bought for investment-security buyers who were less interested...
Booth left the Methodist ministry because the ragtag-&-bobtail following he drew with his fiery street-corner sermons shocked his respectable brethren. Now the Army considers itself a religious body much like any other Protestant denomination, with an accent on works and service. But the old-fashioned blue-and-red uniforms still stand for humility and love-and another chance for sinners...
From then on, Author Duncan's ragtag, bobtail characters resemble Betty MacDonald's farmers, except that his chickens lay golden eggs. In the tinseled, brutal world of prancing ponies and pickpockets, Gus acquires money and mistresses. He sells the pickpocket privilege in the show, trims his partner, boosts his own name into stud-horse type. "When business was high the money rolled in so fast there was no time to sort it, so [it was] shoved into a bushel basket. . . . Gus enjoyed picking up the basket and feasting his gaze on that green currency. Sometimes he plunged...
...Poor Tom?" Back in Washington, other Republican hopefuls took a long, careful look. They counted the stop-Dewey votes. Bob Taft's supporters, already stepping up their campaign, claimed at least 200; Stassenites "claimed another 185; a bobtail of favorite sons controlled another big chunk. His opponents, assessing Dewey's trip, decided that he had blundered. Reports were coming back from politicians who were more riled than anything else by Dewey's attempted blitz. Some experts figured that Dewey had played right into the hands of Harold Stassen, who has long been trying to get Dewey...