Word: cactus
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...electing four members to vacancies on the omnipotent Ways & Means Committee, the Democratic House Caucus voted most heavily for Representative Milton West of Texas, non-New Dealer, good friend of Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner and successor to his House seat. The other three fillers-in elected were New Dealers: Louisiana's Maloney, Pennsylvania's Boland, Illinois' McKeough. Conspicuously not elected to the Committee was a self-proclaimed candidate. Wright Patman of Texas, author of Bill No. 1 on the House calendar, to tax chain stores out of existence...
...presession maneuverings, none was so important as those that went on in the office of the Senate's president, John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner. As Vice President of the U. S., Mr. Garner regularly attends Cabinet meetings by special invitation of President Roosevelt. He attended a meeting last week and, though the walls of the Cabinet room are thoroughly soundproof, newsgatherers soon learned that there had been hot discussion, that Cactus Jack had taken an adamant position for economy...
...Mexican road runner is a long-beaked, shaggy-feathered bird about the size of a partridge. The road runner is death on rattlesnakes, and tall tales are told of its prowess: that it traps its victim in a ring of cactus, hops in and out, pecking holes in the snake's hide, then plants cactus barbs in the wounds until the rattler is as dead as St. Sebastian...
...BURNING CACTUS - Stephen Spender - Random House ($2). Five short stories by an English poet, recording the suffering pulsations of sensitive young men-all strangely alike in temperament - in contemporary France, Spain, Italy, England and Austria at the time of the assassination of Dollfuss...
...Penitentes no longer use nails because too many Cristos have died that way. For 45 minutes the Cristo hangs on the cross while around him his brothers chant, wail, scourge themselves with whips and cactus. Then the victim is cut down, carried back to the morada where awaits an enfermero with brews and unguents...