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...reserve about him, one might say a sense of destiny, now that a humble pharmacist's son has nearly attained the second highest office in the land. One suspects that in his mind's eye Humphrey no longer sees himself solely as the populist-progressive crusader for the downtrodden, but as the Great Articulator for the Great Politician, the premier national statesman. When his audience snickered at a reference to turning the lights off in the White House, Humphrey stopped, smiled broadly, and replied with something less than complete ingenuousness, "That's the least I can do for my President...
Poverty. Finally, Johnson flew to New York to address the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union on the 50th anniversary of its Health Center and became the Defender of the Downtrodden and the Crusader Against Poverty. Said he: "We will help the underprivileged and the underpaid by extending minimum wage and unemployment compensation. We have mounted an attack upon the final fortresses of poverty. We will continue the hundred years' struggle to give every American-of every race and color-equal opportunity in American society...
Wrestling tournaments are exciting, and they can be fun, for both spectators and wrestlers. But they aren't much fun if no one on a team is in contention after the first round or two. Perhaps the answer, for the downtrodden Ivies, would lie in a league tournament of their...
...previntion iv croolty to money." Mr. Dooley deplored the jingoism of the Spanish-American War: "Whin we plant what Hogan calls th' starry banner iv freedom in th' Philippines an' give th' sacred blessin' of liberty to th' poor, downtrodden people iv thim unfortunate aisles-dam thim-we'll larn thim a lesson. We can't give ye anny votes because we haven't more thin enough to go around now, but we'll threat ye th' way a father shud threat his children if we have to break...
Slugging It Out. With only one game left, against Texas A. & M., Royal still is not banking on a national championship-yet. In nearly a quarter of a century, no Texas college has managed to wind up a season No. 1 in the football polls and the downtrodden (2-6-1) Aggies would like nothing better than to bulldog the proud Longhorns. A. & M. has been slugging it out with Texas since 1894; they are such passionate rivals that they have a day all to themselves-Thanksgiving Day-when the rest of the league sits back and enjoys the fight...