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Mississippi's turkey-gobbler John E. Rankin, chairman of the House Veterans Committee, which has been "investigating" the hospitals, last week gave them a clean coat of whitewash, just as newsmen had predicted he would: "Our veterans are receiving fine treatment and handling...
Glib, wild-haired Musicomedian Danny Kaye, working like a turkey gobbler, held up the auction's prize piece. It was not precious. It was a curio: Comic Jack Benny's violin, "Old Love In Bloom"-a $75 imitation Amati. Everyone present knew that only a war could have persuaded Benny to part with the old prop which had provided him with half his gags for the last 20 years. Before anyone could make a bid an attendant rushed up to Auctioneer Kaye with a letter. He opened it and gulped: "I have...
Doktor Rosenberg had as yet had little time for real administrative action. But for months his experts had been planning the economic exploitation of the conquered farms and factories. And certain social innovations might be expected. They were implicit in Doktor Rosenberg's nickname-The Jew Gobbler...
...proud, almost unbelievable week for the Jew Gobbler. Ever since boyhood he had dreamed dizzying dreams of holding great power in Russia. Now that they were coming true they made his role as Hitler's copy chief seem small indeed...
...except for fertilizer (which it makes at Muscle Shoals), TVA does not expect to exploit these resources. Once a gobbler of private utilities, David Lilienthal is now engaged in creating attractions for private capital to come to his Valley. At the same time ("We have obligations to the country as a whole.") he has to avoid acting like a local Chamber of Commerce. The metamorphosis in his character and reputation is locally known as "the dehorning of Dave." Says he nowadays: "I hold no truck with master planning. You can't carry people around. In the first place they...