Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ends: Captain Don Forte, Ralph Davenport, John Morgan, Peter Garland, Herbert Fazio, Charles Gudaitis, Harry Nosford, John Weiman. Tackles: Stanley Durwood, Robert Fisher, Jr., William Fisher, George Hibbard, Edward Hoffman, Andy McCullough, James A. Robinson, Russell Stannard. Guards: James Aldrich, Warren Carstensen, John Comer, John Corrigan, Rollo Fisher, George George, Gerald Gettschalk, William Hornbeck, Charles Hubbard, Charles Kidner, Gilbert King, Thaddeus Mroz, Sidney Smith, William Ward, John Zinkow, Charles Van Pelt. Centres: John H. Dyer, Jack Fisher, Arthur Lawson, Austin Mason, Bruce Smart, George Terrien, Frederick Woodruff, Richard Anderson. Blocking backs: Lloyd Anderson, Harvey Blanchard, Philip Drake, Howard Gleason, Fairfield...
There is a growing, but as yet little-advertised, campaign to persuade the great American poet, Carl Sandburg, to run for Congress against the reactionary Clare Hoffman of Michigan. Mr. Sandburg hasn't committed himself one way or another on his candidacy, though the pressure for him to decide in the affirmative is fortunately increasing daily. If such a political contest were to take place, it would dramatically underline the paradox of the two different kinds of democracy for which Americans are fighting today. On the one hand would be Carl Sandburg representing the forces believing in progressive, twentieth-century...
Since 1934, when first elected to Congress, Hoffman has voted "no" on every bill designed to help the poor, proudly boasting of his opposition to the New Deal and all that it stands for. It has not merely been certain proposals, or the methods of the New Dealers, that this mid-westerner has opposed, but the whole idea of progressive, responsible democracy. Nor does he hate the laboring man simply because he wears overalls. He hates him for daring to ask for better conditions and higher pay. This is the same Hoffman who has voted against every relief bill since...
...defeat such an anti-democrat as Hoffman, Michigan fortunately has his spectacular opposite. Carl Sandburg, dirt farmer, biographer of Lincoln, student of government, and poet of the people, would be a candidate most likely of ending Hoffman's infamous career. A man with tremendous perspective, one of America's greatest humanitarians, Carl Sandburg might be refused by some because of his lack of political experience. But it is not bargaining politicians that we want in our next Congress, rather it is far-seeing statesmen and born democrats who will be qualified to help guide us through the rest...
...Suddenly there was a whizzing of a torpedo and a loud explosion, followed by a short, high-pitched whistle of the torpedoed ship calling for help. A boat fairly near us," de Hoffman said, "was hit, and the explosion shook the whole of our ship...