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...getter Brower, who knew western Iowa Guardsmen would be inducted next month, smelled big business. But he had to work fast: the law applied only to insurance in force 30 days before induction...
...Mayor James John Walker of New York City, blithe, debonair, and Tammany's greatest vote-getter, swamped his Republican rival by 500,000 votes. The rival was Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. In 1932 Governor Franklin Roosevelt held hearings on Mayor Walker's conduct of his office, during which Mayor Walker resigned. Fiorello LaGuardia, making much of Mayor Walker's misdoings, in due time became New York City's mayor...
Major Corcoran strongly admires Franklin Roosevelt and "that remarkable woman who is his wife," as strongly deprecates the U. S. male's rabbitlike divorcing habits, his "I-can-take-it creed." Of the touted U. S. vitality he remarks: "No one was ever less of a born go-getter than the American. He is almost saurian in his sloth." Nervous instability is quite another matter: "I have never seen so much St. Vitus dance as since I've been here." For some years Wyndham Lewis has been one of the toughest, most provocative satirists alive. It is something...
...Milch's military colleagues like him. He is more a business go-getter than a military man of the German pattern. Instead of sternness he has a bland, baby-faced smoothness. Some super-Nazis still view with suspicion his birth, despite his mother's affidavit that he was illegitimate. Her husband, who gave the child his name, was a Jew. But Hitler likes and trusts him highly, gave him a gold Nazi Party pin (great favor...
Griping, mutinous, sore, united only in the fear that the party would be left without its one big vote-getter, the professionals grumbled as they went to Chicago's Stadium on the first night, to sit on the red-painted chairs in the vast arena, hear the old Hamlet of the House, Speaker William B. Bankhead, elocute his meandering way through half an hour of the corniest Southern oratory most of them had ever heard...