Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GLENN TAYLOR...
Crooner in Idaho. To run for the Senate against incumbent Republican John Thomas, onetime isolationist, Democrats picked Glenn Taylor, a cowboy crooner (TIME...
...never heard of PeeWee, much less heard him play, you are missing a great experience in life. Even if you don't like jazz, even if you think Glenn Miller is the greatest thing on earth, it is worth your precious while to spend an evening listening to Russell. For PeeWee is a real character. Not an Artier Shaw who points his clarinet way up high to impress crowds, but a PeeWee Russell who leans way back and closes his eyes because he can play better that...
...driest Idaho, he courageously ran for Senator on a repeal platform. Although he comes from silver-mining country, he steadily, firmly condemns the Silver Purchase Act as economic idiocy. He was Democratic county chairman in 1940 when Glenn Taylor won the nomination and at once resigned in disgust, announcing that he would support the Republican nominee, who was, said he, an economic illiterate but not quite a complete imbecile. He calls Cowboy Taylor a "goddam pettifogging demagogue...
Newshawks' prediction: Cowboy Glenn Taylor will get the nomination...