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Last week the long-suffering citizen's cup ran over. Mississippi's squat, jug-eared Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, 66, became "mayor" of the city. Whereas four of his skittish seniors declined the Chairmanship of the Senate District Committee, The Man accepted with enthusiasm. Hereafter, with the House's hard-working Jennings Randolph, Senator Bilbo will pass on the District's budget, and thus on its civic welfare...
...years ago the State of New York stood ready to execute a hammered-down, jug-eared little blackmailer, labor racketeer and murderer called Lepke (Yiddish affectionate variant of Louis) Buchalter...
...Henry Morgenthau Jr. sat in the House Ways & Means Committee room one morning last week munching raisins. Beside him also munching raisins sat his chief tax expert, small, dun-colored Randolph Paul. Now & then they both drank water from a cone of paper cups piled beside a big water jug, while a battery of grey young Treasury experts, without benefit of raisins and water, periodically scrabbled for documents in accordion-sized brief cases. Morgenthau & Co. needed their vitamins: they had been up most of the night before, putting the finishing touches on the Treasury's recommendations...
...jug-shaped man who often says no to Franklin Roosevelt gulped and said yes. Thus Justice Samuel I. ("Sammy the Rose") Rosenman, 47, decided to quit his job as a New York Supreme Court Justice (salary $25,000 a year) to become "special counsel" to the President (probable salary $10,000 a year...
...last of the top-drawer bright young men of the New Deal packed up last week. Able, jug-eared Abe Fortas, 33, quiet No. i man to noisy Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, had asked the Army to take...