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...Florida, courtly Claude Pepper, who has industriously worked his way up from New Deal errand boy to New Deal advance man, fought four rivals for his seat in the U.S. Senate. Against Pepper the opposition threw all the New Deal symbols which Southerners like least: bureaucracy, OPA bungling, labor and Negro "coddling." ("Drastically below-the-belt mud-slinging!" cried Pepper...
Featherless Errand. For 18 hours through a howling Italian blizzard a carrier pigeon labored to deliver this message from a snowbound British division to Army headquarters: "Nothing to report...
Limits of Loyalty. Alben Barkley had a lot to think about. For seven years, as titular leader of the Senate, he had been Franklin Roosevelt's most faithful follower. Opponents had taunted him with being a Roosevelt stooge, a White House errand boy, reminding him constantly that he owed his election as leader to the President's famed "Dear Alben" letter (see p. 20). Critics had called him inept, plodding, bumbling-as often he seemed. But despite both the taunts and his faults, he had kept the faith. Time & again he had yielded his own judgment...
Floogle Street has become a part of G.I. lingo. A soldier sent on a sleeveless errand now calls it a "Floogle Street assignment." The sergeant who inflicts it on him is "flying Floogle Street...
...Woman must secure governmental control of the munitions industry so that the vicious conditions unearthed by the Nye Committee will not be repeated. But she is never going to do this by performing the fallacious errand of scuttling back to the kitchen to search for her soul...