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Principal Crazy stockholder is thin-faced, black-eyed, ministerial Carr Pritchett Collins, chairman of the board and longtime crony of Texas' hillbilly Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel. With Brother Hal Houston Collins, president of Crazy, Stockholder Carr has a strong grip on Texas politics. Accredited with having helped start O'Daniel's Hillbilly Flour Co., Carr helped run the Governor's campaign, remains a close adviser, is sometimes called the power behind the throne. Glib Radiorator Hal plugs Crazy products and O'Daniel doctrine over company-sponsored broadcasts...
...come over in short nuisance raids and careful military attacks during the day, and in long merciless strangulation by night, Britain's leaders grew more & more concerned about the discomfort and discontent of little people. If anyone could hold their confidence, it was old Winnie. His fond grip on them grew every hour. Rich and poor alike paid him honor. Britain felt that it was cornered, but that Winnie would find a fence to climb over and a mine to hide...
...this year's American League pennant race. But, thanks to Pitcher Bob Feller and a pair of rookies, Lou Boudreau and Ray Mack, who made Cleveland's in field the hottest spot in baseball, the In dians found themselves, by mid-August, with a tight grip on first place...
...destroyers to Britain. "It is not difficult to see what the United States is aiming at," said Kokumin. "By leasing the British bases in the Atlantic, the United States is foreshadowing its future advance in the Pacific. . . . It is now believed that it will extend its grip on Singapore and The Netherlands Indies by speeding up the expansion of bases on Guam, Midway and other Pacific possessions. It is only natural that the Japanese Navy, with its policy of non-menace and nonaggression, should be greatly concerned over this undisguised challenge by the United States...
Called by Mr. Coulter, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sent an ambulance around and carried off the mice in a box, to be delivered into the painless grip of a lethal gas chamber...