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...khaki shirt and khaki pants, had been squatting on the front porch of his home in Uvalde, Tex., telling newsmen that the only thing that interested him was four setting bantam hens and his eight-acre "patch." Two months ago, just after his Presidential aspirations had gone up in cigar smoke at the Democratic Convention, he had gone to ground in Uvalde, and there he had stayed. When he was asked about his plans, and whether he thought of returning to his duties in Washington, he replied: "Tomorrow is only a day away. You can always make up your mind...
...They thought he was so unimportant they did not arrest him. There was Hitler's brutal Labor Boss Robert Ley. Bayles describes his first meeting with the doctor: "Dr. Ley . . . was sitting at the head of a long table slopped with spilt beer and wine, and strewn with cigar and cigarette butts, broken glass, bread crusts and the remains of meals. He was in a soiled brown uniform and his huge, florid face and baldish head were streaked with blood because he had cut his hand on a broken glass and then wiped the blood over his face...
...still drew curious crowds. But these things failed to cheer many Republican politicians. In their gloomy minds, they recalled the black year of 1936 when Alf Landon had had an early lead in polls. In 1928, the whole U. S. turned out to see Al Smith roll by, with cigar, brown derby, wisecracks, East S:dese ard all. As one sad Old Guardsman pontificated to another: dead whales on flat cars also attract crowds...
Paunchy, sloppy, nervous and absentminded, he sits in an enormous office, his pince-nez suspended on a black ribbon, ashes all over his vest. Before he has finished his cigar, he starts sucking a cold pipe, then returns to the cigar. He speaks into an intercommunicator, gets no answer, shouts at it, then finds he forgot to turn it on. Chuckling and giggling, he delights in whimsies, fables and gags of the sort that baffle most businessmen, some of whom think he is insane...
...three years Bill Donovan has doubled their hourly wages. In that time there have been no jurisdictional fights, a few inconsequential strikes. For his work Laborman Donovan draws $200 a week, plus expenses. He is proud of his expense account because it means "I never even took a cigar off a laundry owner...