Word: cincinnatus
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...going out to campaign openly for the job, paying obeisance to the word draft only by saying that the misstatements of opponents had forced him to speak. Political writers, combing history for a man who had really been drafted, found one (who was more legend than fact): Cincinnatus of 458 B.C., who was quietly plowing his acres when Roman messengers hauled him away to rule Rome. Nobody last week likened Franklin Roosevelt to Cincinnatus...
...President had said that "only the people themselves can draft a President." Now, unlike Cincinnatus, he was leaving his plow and going out to look for some Roman messengers. Even Roosevelt-hating Arthur Krock, New York Times columnist, gave the President's decision to campaign backhanded praise (he likened him not to Cincinnatus but to Coriolanus, the patrician who despised the plebeian voters but went through the form of asking for their votes, because he wanted the office of Consul), even admitted that the decision was "of great value to democracy." Candidate Willkie seemed delighted and excited. The general...
...margin close: from Oct. 23 to Nov. 4 is only twelve days. Twelve days in which to campaign for a third term; to answer the opposition, to state his own case, to meet the issues, to explain to his fellow countrymen that, if he was not Cincinnatus, he was not Coriolanus either...
...writer who might have complained most of frontier neglect complained not at all. That was yellow-haired Joaquin Miller (christened Cincinnatus Hiner Miller), a "delicate, effeminate, useless" romantic who had a daughter by an Indian woman, became a judge ("with one lawbook and two six-shooters," said oldtimers), married a romantic Oregon girl-poet named Minnie Myrtle whom he divorced because "Lord Byron separated from his wife, and some of my friends think I am a second Lord Byron." From San Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath...
...ensuing tussle Brother Bob, a conservative like his father, lined up with Cincinnati's Republican organization. As a reward for his party regularity, Ohio picked him as its Favorite Son for the Republican Convention of 1936. Brother Charlie, on the other hand, became a leader of the Cincinnatus Association, a group of energetic young men bent on ridding the city of its wasteful, machine-ridden government. They did, by putting over a new charter which created a city manager and proportional representation, making and keeping Cincinnati one of the best-governed cities in the land. Charlie Taft told...