Word: hatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should we not do likewise with presidents of the U. S., instead of sending them home to twiddle their thumbs, perhaps die of sheer ennui, or, even worse, to hatch up unsuccessful but embarrassing schemes to stage a comeback-as did Theodore Roosevelt and others? Grant, after two terms (1869-1877), retired, then made a strong bid for the Republican nomination in 1880. Van Buren, defeated for re-election under the Democratic standard in 1840, led the new Free-soil party in 1848. Fillmore, rejected by his dissolving Whig party, became the Know-Nothing candidate...
This week the U. S. Senate got religion. Kicking and struggling like a small boy on his way to get his ears scrubbed, the Senate was dragged up to the baptismal font, ducked and blessed by New Mexico's Carl Hatch...
Longtime missionary for purity in politics is Carl Atwood Hatch of Clovis, N. Mex. But Mr. Hatch believes in gradual, rather than total immersion. Last year he converted a dazed Senate to his bill barring all Federal jobholders* from pernicious political activity. This year he wanted more: to extend this ban to all State jobholders whose salaries are paid, even in part, from Federal funds. For next year he has bigger ideas still, including a revival of Theodore Roosevelt's radical proposal (1907) to let the U. S. Government finance Presidential campaigns...
Last week Missionary Hatch had a little trouble with the congregation. He could console himself with the fact that the week before had been even tougher (TIME, March 18). Rallied behind Gospeleer Hatch were Mahout Charles McNary of Oregon and his 22 Republican elephants, all of them acting like poker-faced converts, but none of whom had ever before shown any absorbing interest in pure politics. At his shoulder were Kentucky's Alben Barkley and Happy Chandler, whose desperately dirty 1938 campaign had roused public support to Hatch Bill I. Then Senate Leader Barkley had used WPA to counteract...
What brought these Senatorial headhunters together under the missionary banner of Mr. Hatch was a simple, heathenish fact: they were all interested in breaking up dangerously strong machines in their home States. Against him were arrayed veterans who have spent years of careful effort in building and oiling State machines...