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...word in Texas last week was that President Roosevelt has picked a baby-kissin', snuff-dippin', vote-gettin' man to replace Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio as front man for the New Deal forces working against John Nance Garner on his home base. This snuff-dippin', vote-gettin' man: Railroad Commissioner Gerald Anthony Sadler...
...relation to the tobacco Reynoldses. He comes from the vote-gettin' Reynoldses. Back home in Buncombe County his daddy was a court clerk. Uncle Henry was chief of police, Uncle Dan sheriff, Uncle Gus tax collector. When young Bob first ran for local office 28 years ago, he was smart enough to tell the voters that he didn't give a hoot for them, that he was out for a job and the money. They loved it. Prime dandy of the Senate when he is in Washington, he wears old clothes and drawls...
Jesse James was a bad man all right. There's no gettin' around that. But us Americans have sorta got a place in our hearts for Jesse. Mebbe it's because he was so gol-durned good at the job he was aimin' to do. Mebbe it's because we all know that Jesse warn't really a bad man and a killer. What could a feller do when them blasted railroads robbed you of your lawful own, and then killed your poor old mother? And mebbe it's just because he was the cussin'est, dad-blame-dest, boldest...
...note in Who's Who in Baseball Jerome Herman Dean names Holdenville, Okla. as his birthplace. But according to J. Roy Stockton in the Saturday Evening Post, Dean gives various birthplaces and birth dates to various interviewers "so their bosses won't bawl 'em out for gettin' the same story...
...Sylvester Harris, a Nigger down here in Mississippi. A man gettin' ready to take my land and I want to know what to do. De papers say call you and I does and here...