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Last week, ex-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes followed this pattern as he began describing "My Twelve Years with F.D.R." in the Saturday Evening Post. He took a wallop at Harry Hopkins' WPA: "[Harry] was not priming the pump; he was just turning on the fireplug." He indignantly described an undercover effort by Henry Wallace to get him out of the Cabinet. Wrote he of Henry in a 1938 diary entry: "Henry Wallace is a selfish and not too forthright individual who is so consumed with his political ambition that there isn't anything that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Revelations of a Good Boy | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...dust-deep roads of Walker County, fierce with Alabama's autumn sunshine, 25,000 people went to pay their last respects to "Mr. Will." Jasper's First Methodist Church was roped off-a piece of twine strung from a telephone pole to a soapbox to a fireplug to another telephone pole. Men in overalls and blue denim shirts lined the street. Fans waved under tattered parasols. The loudspeaker brayed a prayer. Sweat-stained hats came off; the crowd's murmur hushed. Children scuffed their feet in the dusty heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Mr. Will Goes Home | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...Carolina premedical student, elder son of Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler, New York beerlegger convicted last fortnight of income tax evasion (TIME, Dec. 11); of injuries suffered when the automobile in which he was speeding north to help plead for reduction of his father's sentence, crashed into a fireplug; near Chester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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