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...word in Texas last week was that President Roosevelt has picked a baby-kissin', snuff-dippin', vote-gettin' man to replace Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio as front man for the New Deal forces working against John Nance Garner on his home base. This snuff-dippin', vote-gettin' man: Railroad Commissioner Gerald Anthony Sadler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Sadler in the Saddle | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...hoppin and cussin rascal. Make bricks all summer. . . . And, Heavenly Father, who art up yonder, all we got now is bricks. Mom and Violet and Macon and Big Sister and me squattin in corners munchin a brick apiece. Not eem gravy or sweetenin either. . . . Hello, Tooter. How you? . . . Oh, kissin runs in our family. . . . Hello, Shackle. Hidy-do, good-lookin. How you? Oh, I'm all right, thank-you-mam. . . . Pete won't care much. She's kissed everbody they is aready . . . and I'll stand there and watch them go down and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bell's Shackle | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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