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...your cover story on the new Speaker of the House of Representatives you state that I regard Mr. McCormack as "a hack politician...
...have never referred to Mr. McCormack as "a hack politician" and I have never considered him such. He has had a long and distinguished career in politics, and is recognized by all who know him as a highly skilled and accomplished legislator. Indeed, his unopposed election to the Speakership is testimony to the regard in which the House membership holds his abilities...
...Italy. Local legend has it that the great Enrico Caruso, singing L'Elisir d'Amore, was once all but booed from the stage in a performance that did not please Parma's exacting gallery. Next day a cabbie refused to take him to the station. The hack driver's reason: he did not want to dirty his carriage with such a bad singer...
...anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...
...emotional, culled from personal experience as a member of the "deserving poor." He has little use for the liberalism derived largely from books and faculty-club discussions. Such House liberals as Missouri's Richard Boi ling and New Jersey's Frank Thompson regard McCormack as a hack politician who is all too ready to compromise modern liberal principles. Replies John McCormack: "I'm a progressive who believes that the road to progress is, in moments of contest, reasonable compromise. You don't compromise principles, but you harmonize tactics to preserve unity." McCormack proved his point with...