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...segregation issue. He learned his politics at the baggy knee of his father, gallus-snapping "Ol' Gene" Talmadge, one of the South's most notorious rabblerousers, governor of Georgia for six years (1933-36, 41-42). Herman watched his father run the state with the fist of a dictator, spit tobacco at his foes and graze milk cows on the statehouse lawn. He also saw his father try-and fail-to do what Herman has now done: turn Walter George out of the U.S. Senate...
...state "like the Vatican in Rome." Vellucci had already been voted down when he proposed to a city council meeting that Harvard's land be taken "by eminent domain" to be used as parking areas, which the city needs. The student riot was allegedly set off by a fist fight between four editors of the Harvard Advocate, the student literary magazine, following an argument over the relative merits of poetry and prose...
...shrewdly conceived speech delivered at the opening of the British Industries Fair in Birmingham. He began by flexing Russia's muscles. He had noticed that in the streets there were "a few, a very few, placards against us and a few cries. One man even shook his fist at me. My return gesture was this [Khrushchev shook his own fist], and we both understood each other...
...Later on Hitler shook a clenched fist at us. He is in his grave now. Is it not time that we become more intelligent and not shake our fists at each other? As a matter of fact, fist fighting requires much less brains than trading...
...With fist, boot, pistol and general finagling, he made his way through New York's Tammany Hall, took on a doxy named Fanny White, whom he found in a brothel, earned the enmity of Editor James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald. Bennett called him "Aunfit" for a diplomatic post, so Sickles devised a subtle revenge: when he got to London, he presented his favorite tart of the moment to Queen Victoria as "Miss Bennett...