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Opposing Franklin Roosevelt was John Garner, who had no more hope of winning the primary than the Presidency. Cactus Jack wanted only to prove to the President that Term III is impossible. He felt this could be proved if two things happened: 1) if only 10% of Illinois' Democrats voted for Garner-and thus against Term III; 2) if Mr. Dewey's G. O. P. vote equaled or nearly equaled Mr. Roosevelt's Democratic vote. John Garner can add. He wanted to add up the Republican vote and the Garner vote to show Mr. Roosevelt that...
...felt the force of this statement more than old "Cactus Jack" Garner. Wise in the ways of political treachery, the fluff-browed Texan was not surprised last week when many of his hangers-on, even some of his friends, began to avoid him. Still he held his little, well-heeled force together, still determined to fight Term III to the bitter...
...being very fuzzy. In other words, the needle (from one case--not too good a test, it's true) seems to be good for only two hundred sides--and that at dire risk to your records. Either the needle is bad, the record surface poor--or quite possibly both. Cactus needles look like a far safer...
...speech opening the Diet, newly restored Foreign Minister Arita disclaimed any intention of eliminating "legitimate rights and interests" of the U. S. in China. This unctuousness, coming just after U. S.-Japanese trade relations fell treatyless, was punctured by a sentence which was a cactus of innuendo: International conflict, said Mr. Arita, is "largely due to the fact that some nations insist upon trying to maintain an irrational and unjust international status quo relative to race, religion, territory, resources, trade, immigration and other matters by adopting exclusionist policies or by abusing their superior positions...
...Georgia hills, over the pine woods of Alabama and the low Louisiana marshlands. Snow fell at Laredo on the Mexican border, beginning one midnight and falling until 5 the next morning, to the wonder of the natives; in San Antonio it fell gently on the adobe houses, on the cactus and the palm trees, on the children who had never seen it before. The heaviest snow in 33 years fell in Houston. And in mild astonishment the Texas newspapers reported that people were throwing snowballs in Port Lavaca, which lies on dreamy Matagorda Bay in the same latitude...