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...first, because the stout old bantam cock couldn't reach the man-size micro phone, his gravelly voice grated away in a scratchy whisper for nearly a minute, to great choruses of boos and shouts of "louder!" from Mayor Kelly's men. Then the P. A. operator lowered the microphone, and Glass's hoarse whisper filled the stadium: ". . . An incomparable Democrat ... a man on whose word every human being can always rely. . . . Thomas Jefferson. . . . Since I have been sitting on this platform I have had two anonymous communications objecting to Jim Farley because he is a Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: By Acclamation | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...Chicago. On a wall of the Convention's vast (21,000 seats) Chicago Stadium, a huge picture of a donkey was replaced by a spotlighted, grisly sketch of Franklin Roosevelt. Assiduously distributed were 500,000 campaign buttons, adorned not by a donkey but by a bright red cock-o'-the-walk and the legend: "Just Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mystery Story | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...anticipate TIME's stories. The Newsmagazine is as unpredictable as the warring, struggling, creating, cock-eyed human race, whose historian it is. Only this is certain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A nose for news--and a stomach for whiskey | 5/23/1940 | See Source »

...crack at all the G. O. P. Hopefuls came from independent Republican Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York City's bantam-cock mayor. Withdrawing his name from the Illinois primary ballot, on the excuse that he did not want to divide the liberal vote,* the Mayor said: '. . . I went and saw a movie called Abe Lincoln in Illinois and I looked over the present crop of Republican candidates-phooey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Clip for Buster | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...series of seven editorial Daily Princetonian editors plan to attack the machinery of the club system and their social standards. They believe that "elimination of the cock-eyed bicker system will reduce social stratification...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daily Princetonian Attacks Bickering | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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