Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Texas, learned to fly in World War I, barnstormed all over the Rio Grande Valley after war's end. While flying in & out of Mexico with oil company payrolls, he heard reports of Mayan treasure in an inaccessible jungle. Long later parachuted into the wilderness, barely managed to hack his Way back (emptyhanded) to civilization...
Green Features whipped through Boston a while hack, and now the Maro Connelly revival is drawing them to the Broadway Theatre, 53rd Street west of Broadway. The Hall Johnson chair helps out in the striking dramatization of the Roark Bradford approach...