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...Indiana, where Republicanism's shell is hard as a turtle's, tart, redheaded Representative Charles Marion La Follette (third cousin of Wisconsin's Bob and Phil) is the "Wild Jackass." Elected to Congress in 1942, Lawyer La Follette has startled his G.O.P. colleagues by voting for New Deal measures, dismayed them by lectures on the evils of states' rights...
Died. George Higgins Moses, 75, caustic, critical Republican Senator (1918 to 1933) from New Hampshire; of coronary thrombosis; in Concord, N.H. A Greek and Latin scholar, thin-lipped, Maine-born Senator Moses specialized in the crushing word. Sample phrases: "sons of the wild jackass" (insurgent Western Senators); "four more years of diminuendo" (on the re-election of Calvin Coolidge). Buried by the 1932 Democratic landslide, he remained thereafter, in his own phrase, "only a nuisance value to the Republican Party...
...Chicago Tribune had run colored front-page cartoons built around a campaign jingle: "BACK TO WORK QUICKER WITH DEWEY AND BRICKER." But the New Deal-hating Tribune had puzzled its readers. It had failed to find a four-color jingle lampooning Franklin Roosevelt. Last week a braying Democratic jackass appeared on Page One, bearing aloft a banner: "BACK ON RELIEF WITH THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF...
...Jackass Age. Cotton Ed was a conscientious objector to the 20th Century. He walked out of the 1936 Democratic Convention in high dudgeon because a Negro preacher read a prayer. He was a drag-end isolationist. He was a believer in poll taxes; he was never heard to protest a Southern lynching; and he stood prepared to filibuster to the end against an anti-lynching bill. He decorated his speeches by "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away, or if there were no spittoons, he would spit on the Senate carpet...
...imperious: "Tell those butt-heads we will assemble tomorrow morning" was his way of summoning fellow Senators to a meeting of his Agriculture Committee. He once formulated his economic, social and political thinking in one sentence: "Gentlemen, we are right in the smack-dab middle of a jackass...