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...wise guys who have been whispering, "Wait and see-Taft will fade out, then throw his support to Bricker," Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft and Governor John William Bricker had an answer last week. In Washington, they threw their arms around each other. Governor Bricker, once called a dark horse, said he was a horse of another color, would support Taft to the "last ditch." He frowned officially on a Chicago "Bricker-for-President" headquarters. Still some of the wise guys merely winked...
Then the rosy picture began to fade. The State began to interfere more & more with Big Business, to bear down on profits and increase taxes. Two years ago the Ruhr industrialist complained of being followed, of having his telephone tapped and his mail opened by the Gestapo. A long trip to South America followed, after which matters were patched up for a time. But no one could have been more dismayed or surprised by the Nazi-Communist Pact than Fritz Thyssen, die-hard hater of Socialism. Last summer Herr Thyssen warned the Nazis against going to war. A few weeks...
Phenomenal in 1938 was Robert Alphonso Taft's Ohio Senatorial victory over promising New Dealer Robert Johns Bulkley. Mr. Taft was phenomenally dull, phenomenally serious, phenomenally popular at the polls. Prissy, solemn, ponderous Mr. Taft was expected to fade away into the obscure routine of a freshman Senator. He didn't. He engaged in a series of radio debates with clever, Horace-quoting Democratic Congressman T. V. Smith of Illinois. Most people expected Mr. Taft to be skunked. But pollsters found the U. S. public voting for Senator Taft's serious, platitudinous remarks 2-to-1 over...
...figures who have given the contemporary stage in America a great deal of its high quality and some of its greatness,--Cornell, McClintic, and Miclziner, star, director, and stage designer. They put on a production so polished, so beautifully done in every respect that Mr. Behrman's temporary foibles fade into the background...
Even after his paper began to fade, "Old Pitch" remained a character. His greying hair fell over his collar and his jutting jaw was fringed by old-fashioned sideburns. In his breast pocket he kept a six-inch ruler, with which he settled all arguments concerning distance, and a small pair of scissors, with which he trimmed the ends of the cigars he was forever chewing. He could argue any subject to victory or the exhaustion of his opponent. He settled his bills by stamping them PAID and mailing them back to his creditors...