Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philosophy: Tall, gangling, sandy-haired Philosopher Smith accepts his success in politics as natural enough. He attributes it to: 1) his homespun personality (he is "Tom" and not T. V. or Professor Smith on the radio); 2) his thin but intimate radio voice, which listeners so persistently confused with Alexander Woollcott's, that in desperation he invited Woollcott to talk on one of his programs; and 3) his political philosophy. His philosophy: that politicians are not supposed to evolve their own ideas but to evolve compromise programs. He thinks legislation should be written by experts, steered by politicians...
...closing days of Maryland's sizzling primary fight between brusque, well-to-do Senator Millard E. Tydings and homespun little Representative David John Lewis brought Democrats something new to talk about almost hourly last week. Items...
Strapping, black-haired, 46, conservatively dressed, grammatical but homespun, Wilbert Lee O'Daniel has further assets in a pretty grey-haired wife named Merle, two good-looking boys in their teens, Pat & Mike, and a cute 16-year-old daughter, Molly. All musical, the children accompanied him and his hillbilly band everywhere. Their meetings soon far surpassed other candidates' in size...
...antipathies in U. S. politics have been so significant as that between the present U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, who looks homespun in a marble office, and the present Supreme Court of the U. S., whose Chief Justice would look Jovian in a rumble seat. They tangled from the beginning of the Great Court Battle, when Henry Agard Wallace charged that in ordering the return of $200,000,000 of AAA's invalidated processing taxes, the Supreme Court had authorized "the greatest legal steal in history." Since then the Court has come to terms with most of the organic...
...Britain's sprucest salesmen. Last week Gaumont British and Alexander Korda, proving that the British cinema industry is not entirely dormant, had two films apiece ready to join the U. S. Easter cinema parade. Of the four, the two less pretentious cost $450,000 each, represented the good homespun handiwork of which the British industry is capable when it is not making quota quickies or trying to imitate Hollywood's grand manner. The others were, important because they 1) cost about $1,000,000 each, and 2) showed it in varying ways. The best two were laid...