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...famous story is told of a truck-driver, halted by an imperious wave of the Kittredge cane one morning who leaned out of his cab and shouted, "Hey, Santa Claus, where do you think you're going...
...well aware of U.A.W.'s key position is John L. Lewis. While C.I.O. President Philip Murray lay convalescing from overwork and nervous exhaustion, John Lewis moved in on U.A.W. with the stealth of an elephant crashing through a cane brake...
...sugar since 1933. He first got interested in Puerto Rico back in 1934 when with Muñoz Marin 's help he set up the commission which drafted a plan to redistribute some 200,000 corporately held acres of Puerto Rico's 300,000 acres of sugar-cane land in tracts of 500 acres or less. Then Tugwell fell from Roosevelt favor and relapsed into political obscurity - from which Secretary Harold Ickes rescued him last winter by sending him to Puerto Rico to study land...
...commotion in the doorway has sounded his triumphant arrival and Nock shuffles up the aisle, tipping his cocked hat to admirers and gayly swinging a useless cane. As he hustles to the platform he appears flustered about the coming performance. He dumps out a stack or books and papers on the table and more or less tears of his monotonous black cloaking, revealing another layer of rumpled blackness. The first communication to the audience may be anything from a grin to an inimitable gargle -- one of those special Nock guttural noises denoting pause and hesitancy. Then a stream of words...
...there in 1805 that Andrew Jackson sponsored one of the greatest match races of all time: his Truxton v. Lazarus Cotton's Greyhound, with cane-shaking partisans wagering their tobacco crops, stables and plantations on the outcome. It was there in 1843 that Nashville's gentry staged the $35,000 Peyton Produce Stakes, up to that time the world's richest horse race and the forerunner of America's "Futurities" (race in which competitors, now usually two-year-olds, are nominated at birth or before...