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Carl Hubbell is a ballplayer's ball player; Count Basie is a swing artist's swing artist; bounding Burt Wheeler is a Senator's Senator. Forged in the furnace of Montana politics, in the long fight with Montana's absentee owners, tempered by blows in & out of the Senate that would have long since destroyed anyone of lesser steel, polished by the saving grace of a swift mind that has dwelt long on the ironies of politics-Burt Wheeler has lived a half-dozen lives, every one at top speed, except for brief intervals of catnapping...
...building plant in Hartford, Conn., and moved across town to a new factory under a single roof. N-B-P, which operates the Pratt & Whitney* tool works, last week had a backlog of $8,700,000, up 400% from last year. Its bulky president, 65-year-old Clayton Raymond Burt, who served his toolmaking apprenticeship with big Brown & Sharpe back in the early 19005, like the rest of the industry found his plant unable to keep up with his orders. The company's backlog was still growing, and tough...
...Burt ("Cold-rolled" to his employes) was telling customers they would have to wait their turns. Since the industry has a wholesome fear of overexpansion, many a plant-like Monarch, Sundstrand, Van Norman, Ex-Cell-0-told purchasers that their wait might be a year or more...
...with the Term III mystery. Mr. Roosevelt was interested to read that he had said flatly: he would not run again unless the Germans overrun England; that Cordell Hull is his choice for successor, is safe, can be elected; that the Vice Presidency lay between Bob Jackson, Paul McNutt, Burt Wheeler; that Jim Farley would not be a sound Vice Presidential candidate on a Hull ticket. Mr. Roosevelt supposedly said that Farley "has done more for me politically than any other living person, not even excepting my wife." But people might "say we were using Cordell Hull as a stalking...
Chorister Holvik of Elbow Lake, Minnesota, and Eliot House tallied 90 votes. Other candidates and their votes were: Charles D. Lutz, Jr., 70; James A. Rousmaniere, 67; David S. Burt, 63: Edward G. Dreyfus, 53; A. Jan P. La Rue, 50: Bayard S. Clark, 44; Howard P. Mendel, 35; and John L. Donnell...