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...Falling Forelock. Republicans were bitterly regretting their overconfidence of last November, when they figured that they could win with anybody. Governor Dwight Green had thereupon picked a nobody-a political unknown, Russell W. Root. A big, bumbling bear of a man notable only for his party loyalty, his amiability, and his political ritualism ("I'll go along"), Root's undistinguished career as lawyer and minor public servant did not stand up well under comparison with Kennelly...
...conference again with his chief at 9. Later in the day he sat down with the Secretaries of War, Navy, Treasury, Agriculture and the Director of the Budget, behind firmly closed doors. To inquisitive reporters White House Secretary Early said briefly: "They are taking time by the forelock. . . . When the Lend-Lease Bill passes, many of the Administrative requirements will be set and ready." On the floor of the Senate, Lend-Lease was being debated. The President waited, still...
...rolling barrage of righteous Cracker votes, red-gallused, spellbinding Eugene ("I'm for peace") Talmadge (who was beaten for the U. S. Senate two years ago) mowed down Dairyman Columbus Roberts, Attorney Abit Nix on his sure-fire advance to a third term as Governor. With his forelock and victory both in his eye, New Deal Baiter Talmadge roared: "I am glad Georgia...
Last week in Washington the War Department grabbed time by the forelock, signed a $16,075,000 order for smokeless powder to be turned out by Hercules Powder Co. (operators of the famed Charleston, W. Va. nitro plant of 1918) from a mill still to be built near Radford, Va. Only the week before the Army had signed a $25,000,000 contract with Hercules to put up the plant and operate it on a cost-plus basis. It was the second construction contract to be let in 1940's defense emergency for a powder mill to be operated...
...flies and sweet peas than about heredity in man. They cannot conscript men & women for experimental breeding in laboratories. Thus limited, they grab eagerly at what observable oddments they can-collect evidence on hereditary tongue-twisting, eye color, extra fingers, webbed fingers, hollow or "cobbler's" chest, white forelock...