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What some old-line Texas Democrats questioned, however, was the precise color of Mr. Howe's political complexion. His father was a stand-pat Republican. His Atchison Globe is still Republican. Moreover, Texas folk are still quoting a public address Gene Howe made two years ago when, kidding on the square, he said that before moving to Texas, he and his late partner, Wilbur C. Hawk, nipped a coin to determine which would be Democrat, which Republican. Until his death in 1936 Hawk supported Alf Landon. But if Gene Howe never gets to Congress, he probably...
...only for good will-particularly the good will of the State Department-not for profit, because the Federal Communications Commission granted only "experimental licenses" for such broadcasts (meaning that the programs could not be sold to commercial sponsors). Last week the Commission issued regulations which put a new complexion on U. S. shortwaving...
...arrangements. Although the latter were ummentioned in the pact, there has been considerable discussion about making America's armament supplies available for her poorly armed Southern neighbor. Secondly, the Brazilian Pact may set in motion a series of United States, Latin-American trade arrangements that will change the whole complexion of the South American situation. The closer the Pan-American ties become, the less the danger of European totalitarian philosophy, and the brighter the future of freedom and free trade, at least in the Western Hemisphere...
...girl and stole her hair for his wig. Another libelously linked him with the "Mohawks," a gang of London roughnecks who rolled stray females in barrels and cut off the noses of wandering drunks. Actually he seems to have been an obscure, spry, spare little man with a "brown complexion and dark brown-coloured hair ... a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes and a large mole near his mouth...
...Clark ("Pinky") Harrington, U. S. Army Engineer Corps, has been on detached duty with WPA since 1935 as assistant administrator in charge of construction projects. He, too, was properly reticent when he departed. But when he returned for a second call that evening, the press knew that Pinky (for complexion) Harrington was to get the No. 1 Relief job. Two days later the President formally named Colonel Harrington as Acting Relief Administrator, and Aubrey Williams to head the National Youth Administration...