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...grieved more deeply at the Speaker's death than his fiercest political foe in life, short, ruddy Congressman John Nance ("Jack") Garner of Texas, onetime cowboy, leader of the House Democrats. Tears filled his blue eyes when he heard the news. "My closest, my best-loved friend!" he exclaimed. "Mr. Longworth was an aristocrat. I am a plebeian. Perhaps the very fact of our different rearing intensified our interest in each other." As rival leaders of the House Garner and Longworth had joked over the Speaker's official automobile, called it "our car" (TIME, Nov. 17). After House hours they...
...vote $100,000 for research on a refrigerator "just so they'd have more to worry about." It was he who, through John Jacob Raskob, then secretary to Pierre Samuel du Pont, interested the "Wilmington crowd" in G. M. He is one of the Federal Reserve's oldest, loudest, fiercest foes. He claims to have visited President Hoover a year ago last spring and warned him of impending crisis in the securities' markets. In 1909 he arranged to buy Ford Motor Co. for $8,000,000 but his bankers were afraid. He is a stanch Presbyterian, stanch Republican. He shuns...
...have watched him and his name has figured on all the "All" teams chosen so far. Ticknor's forte has been his sensational defensive work; his remarkable ability to diagnose the opposing plays coupled with his great strength has made him a veritable Rock of Gibraltar against which the fiercest rushes have dashed hopelessly...
...played a much better game at defensive tackle. Kuehn justified his assignment at right tackle and Talbot again proved that he is still to be considered for a first team guard berth. His tackle of Bethea on the kickoff opening the second half was one of the cleanest and fiercest seen in the Stadium this year. The line as a whole clicked much better than it did against the Big Green, bad tackling being its only weakness...
...made a treaty with the Seminole Indians* whereby they ceded their Florida lands to the U. S., promised to move to what is now Arkansas. They failed to move. The Seminole War (1835-42), fiercest of Indian struggles, followed. Defeated, the Seminoles fled, some to Arkansas, many more into the murky wilderness of the Everglades. Solicitous of their welfare, the U. S. began an attempt to round them up out of the swamps where they have remained to this good day. A 23,542-acre reservation in Florida was waiting for them if only they would come out of their...