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...simple hotfoot or an atomic explosion- is the basis of all humor, and he can discuss grafters, murderers and wife-beaters as delightedly as a zoologist describing a sporty specimen of toad or bloodworm. Capp is a large-framed, large-headed, exuberant man with a shock of black hair, bottomless energy and a bullfrog voice. He often climaxes a denunciation of some awful piece of skulduggery by bursting into ribald laughter and bawling, "Charming! Charming!" at the top of his lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

This week Illinois' campaign rattled on. Republican Dirksen, who once voted for the Marshall Plan, more recently denounced it as money poured down a "bottomless pit," hammered at "creeping socialism," at "bungling" at Yalta and Potsdam, at "appeasement, vacillation and weakness" which, he charged, led up to the Korean war. Scott Lucas went his weary, cautious way. He argued that victory in Korea had prevented World War III. He repudiated several important Fair Deal items such as socialized medicine and the Brannan Plan. The loyal and indefatigable Douglas chugged right & left in his station wagon, lifting his voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voices Over Illinois | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...entirely, his own fault-and some annoyance. Dwight Eisenhower, in a casual press-conference remark at a family reunion in St. Louis last week, caught some of that mood. Said he: "Their situation is terrible and they must have sympathy, but we must realize that we are not a bottomless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Their Situation Is Terrible | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...towns, they sit hungrily day after day. When a foreign newsman appears, they gather around him. Why does the U.S. not send a torrent of aid? Most of those who ask this question have kin or acquaintances who came back rich from America. To them the U.S. is a bottomless well of wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: With Will to Win | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Leland S. McKittrick charged yesterday that compulsory national health insurance would place the emphasis on quantity, not on quality, of medical service and would require the federal treasury to become a bottomless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McKittrick Strikes at Health Insurance Bill | 2/3/1949 | See Source »

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