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...into a scheme of history. They see him not merely as a perfect political candidate, but as the forerunner in U.S. politics of a new era of friendly men to succeed the recent era of angry men-the era of the Burt Wheelers, the Fiorello LaGuardias, the Huey Longs, the Harold Ickeses and the Culbert Olsons...
...doubt this is startling doctrine. A Huey Long in the President's chair might utilize it to subvert most things that free men call desirable. But Professor Commager notes that over the course of the years legislatures have generally had their way. The Supreme Court has often declared a law unconstitutional only to have the sovereign people cancel out the "judicial nullification" by amendment, or by new law, or by judicial reversal obtained by the appointment of new judges, or by political pressure from the White House...
SANDERS THEATRE, Nov. 19 (VP)--"Shea, I really heard a good one, Boyce," Huey stammered as he finished another tankard of Cahill. "It's rumored the Maroon and Gould's gonna play the Crimson if Jawn'll Lennon a few men. Just the same we'll Slater them and toss them into that bucket O'Brien...
...clubwomen exchange poisoned compliments in honeyed Southern accents and where somber husbands carry in their pockets rattlesnake rattles which they buzz as their speechless comment on the life of their times. In Courthouse Square, revolving around a lynching, ana in Sun in Capricorn, about the rise of a worse Huey Long, Author Basso drew as bitter a picture of his native section as Sinclair Lewis drew in Main Street and Babbitt...
...cent beer and small talk that ranges from post war planning to post mortems on the current collapse of the Nazis, compose, rewrite, and assemble news stories up to that awful time known throughout the profession as the deadline. In order to join the select company of Hu Flung Huey, Michael Mullins, and others, candidates will go through a six week competition in which they must prepare to acquire the scent for news, follow the elusive vapor to its source, and report the results in readable prose...