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...Senate, Douglas has fought long & hard for Administration bills, including controls. But big Paul Douglas is no party hack. He criticized the Truman budget for having too much fat; he criticized Truman's cronies for their conduct in RFC. He also suggested at one point that if Harry Truman did not want the job next year, Dwight Eisenhower might make a good coalition President. In a full-dress speech in the Senate, he demanded that the Administration pursue a resolute course in Asia (TIME, Jan. 22), and once he called Dean Acheson a war casualty who should be allowed...
Interviewed at home, Anderson said he did not realize the chief objected to outside work, and he has even heard rumors that Collins "used to drive a hack" on the side...
Order, or order of growth. Pretty soon a Militant Order, or reform association, develops. On a program of destroying weeds, it manages to hack up most of the flowers...
...managed to get elected to the New York legislature ("Too True! Too True! I have become a 'political hack' "), to make an unsuccessful race as the Republican candidate for mayor of New York, to serve successively as U.S. civil service commissioner and New York police commissioner, to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy ("The Secretary is away, and I am having immense fun running the Navy"), to go to Cuba in the Spanish-American War and lead the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill ("By the way, I then killed a Spaniard myself with the pistol . . . which...
Filipinos, who felt very close to MacArthur, were saddest of all. Sighed a Manila hack driver: "It is like being told that Uncle Sam is no more." A smalltown storekeeper asked: "This man Truman doesn't make sense. Why is it that he is tough and cruel to a brother American like MacArthur, yet is bashful to an enemy like Stalin...