Word: hashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hash From Home. Citizens wondering how the majority could be thus dillied, did well to look toward La Salle and Ran dolph Streets in Chicago. At that busy corner, one day last week, a white horse stood. On the horse was Miss Elane Summers, 19, a Rockford (Ill.) College sophomore, in a Revolutionary getup which was supposed to make her resemble Paul Revere (see cut,p.11). Calling herself Pauline Revere, Miss Summers admonished the U. S.: "MOBILIZE FOR PEACE-DEFEAT CONSCRIPTION." Said alliterative Papa Summers (who in 1938 denounced Communists for luring his son Thane to death in Loyalist Spain...
Symbolized by this puppet Pauline was the bulk of last week's "popular" opposition to conscription. Among the articulate minorities which frightened Congress were many sincere, substantial, respected groups. But in sum they made as weird a hash as was ever dumped on Washington...
Gnarled Philadelphia Publisher Moe Annenberg, 62, after settling for $9,500,000 civil suits for a hash of income-tax evasions, left Federal Court in Chicago, where he had pleaded guilty to one count of the same criminal charges, posed with unusual affability for what he called a "different"' picture...
Whereupon everyone else's fever went up. For on April 2 some 750,000 voters in Wisconsin will swarm to polling-booths in a Presidential primary, will then & there settle the political hash of GOPresumptives Arthur Vandenberg or Thomas E. Dewey. Senator La Follette last week had become "Good Old Bob," a man whom many new friends were trying to influence. Representing a rock-bottom (1938) legion of 353,000 Progressive voters in a wide-open primary, his nod might mean the difference between success & failure to hundreds of big & little shots...
...Franklin Roosevelt could take off his coat, sit in the sun, nap, read a murder mystery, flip cigarets into the blue Gulf waters-perhaps smile at the revival of the 1939 rumor* that he would meet heads of European Governments in midocean, there settle the world's hash. Last week he could have killed the rumor with a wink or a lifted eyebrow...