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Cracker Boy. Campaign literature which James Mark Wilcox distributes to his listeners includes a brochure modestly describing himself and his achievements. Excerpts: "Born in Willacoochee, Georgia, at the headwaters of Florida's Suwannee River on May 21, 1890. . . . Elected to Congress from the Fourth District in 1932; re-elected in 1934 and 1936. . . . Author of: 'Finance and Taxation Problems of Florida Municipalities.' ... He has frankly and sincerely opposed the Supreme Court Bill . . . the Black-Connery Bill ... the Reciprocal Trade Treaty with Cuba because of its injury to our Florida farmers. . . . Mark Wilcox is a cracker...
...wasting dollars or handshakes on nonentities. He bows low to the right people, bids low on the right jobs. His perspicacity in switching from the Republican to the Democratic trough in 1932 also has contributed materially to his emergence as Pennsylvania's Public Contractor No. 1. To Pennsylvanians born & bred in gutter politics, it therefore seems perfectly natural that blue-eyed Little Matt should draw first mud in this State's muddled Democratic primary campaign...
Fortnight ago Czech Playwright Karel Capek's Power and Glory was produced in London with Vienna-born Oscar Homolka in the two leading roles. On opening night most of the women in a hushed audience wore black, aware that Homolka would come straight to the theatre from the inquest following his young wife's death from an infection...
Opposite him is oval-faced Movita (full name: Movita Castenada), 22-year-old Arizona-born Mexican singing & dancing actress whose chief handicap in Hollywood has been that Dolores Del Rio got there first...
...rivers of our national life will flow onward and not backward. Change as such one need not fear. It is the temper in which changes are born that matters. That temper implies a readiness to recognize the claims of others to civilized living, a willingness to submit the means for the attainment of that end to the traditional methods of discussion and debate, and an avowal so to arrange our institutional life as to make it realize, so far as humanly possible, the content of the new and growing liberty...