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After your statement about the people of Cass County being hillbillies who corner their rabbits in hollow logs and take Levi Garett snuff (between their lower lip and teeth) with their politics, I would like to suggest that if you have the guts to do so that you come down to Cass County and make some of those statements to some of Hon. Wright Patman's neighbors or any of his many friends all over Texas. If you did it would be a good idea to let your cow and calf together for you wouldn't get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...sides throughout this financial feud, and in one Directors' meeting Mr. Fish struck and floored J. T. Harahan, who had succeeded him as President of the Illinois Central. A romantic and spirited, if not entirely accurate, narrative of the Harriman-Fish embroglio has recently been written by Garet Garett in his latest novel, The Driver. Mr. Fish was a railroad executive of the old order, rough and ready in speech, cautious in administration, scrupulously honorable in his engagements, and completely impatient of fallacious economics. Even in his youth he played his part against greenback inflation, and for the risky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stuyvesant Fish | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

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