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...Errand Boy. Most U.S. political machines, however disreputable, have two saving graces to their credit: 1) they are close enough to the people to know basic human desires, tragedies and needs; 2) their bosses, earthy and disillusioned men, have sometimes found talent where more snobbish souls would never have thought to look. In 1921, with his haberdashery under the hammer and black days ahead, Truman looked up some old servicemen friends in the Pendergast organization. Truman was a veteran, a farmer, a Mason, a Democrat from three generations back; he had friends all over Jackson County. The machine made...
...Miami, a photographer wanted to take the customary picture. Winchell asked him not to, said the Navy would have to answer why. That stirred more curiosity. The editor of the Miami Herald called Winchell, wanted to know where he was going. Commander Winchell said: "I am running an errand for Uncle." The Miami Herald then ran a story making Winchell's mission sound secretish, the A.P. picked it up and some of the U.S. press heckled Walter Winchell for sounding...
...Magyar counts and the Admiral stared despondently from their high windows and saw Europe and its New Order disintegrating. They saw ahead more dull, humiliating months as errand boys to Hitler, then fine chances for insurrection and chaos. They wondered what they could do about...
...island of Pantelleria, Italian naval base in the Mediterranean. Mussolini was either too ill (of ulcers or mental distress) or too busy to attend the reception for Pierre Laval in Germany (see p. 23). More likely he was too busy, for he still behaved like an aged errand,boy. He shook up his Party directorate and was reported to have fired General Vittorio Ambrosio, Army Chief of Staff, and General Ettore Bastico, Marshal of Italy and onetime Governor of Libya, for "unprincipled pacifism." His own unprincipled imperialism was given its epitaph by Sagittarius' second verse of parody...
...issue I read, incredulously, the following paragraph under Education: "But the future of the moron is not completely dark. The war has temporarily created jobs for morons: they are filling in as errand boys and girls, waiters, elevator operators, nurses' aides...