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...promised knockdown fight between the Old Guard and the Willkieites in the Republican Party fizzled. At its meeting in St. Louis this week, the G.O.P. National Committee picked as its chairman Iowa's greying, thick-jowled Harrison Earl Spangler, 63, dirt farmer, county seat lawyer, and an avowed middle-of-the-roader...
...Byrnes's hand lies the fate of the U.S. war economy. Fortunately it is a competent hand, firm, fair and facile. In ten years in the Senate, Czar Byrnes had learned the value of operating quietly. Many a time, when it seemed as if there would be a knockdown Senatorial battle, Jimmy Byrnes got the fight called off. He hopes to work the same way in his newer, tougher...
...Smith, who had been doing his best to rouse the rabble within them. They gave their allegiance to Judge Homer Ferguson. By naming a good and honest Judge who had cleaned up much of Detroit's graft and corruption, the Republicans assured the State of a knockdown contest in November between two better-than-average candidates. The Judge's opponent: able Democrat Prentiss M. Brown, now steering the anti-inflation bill through the Senate...
...bigger & bigger patches of green spread on the snow fields, it seemed that the Russian was left-jabbing desperately to keep the Nazi off balance, as if he were a groggy but still brutally strong fighter recovering from his winter knockdown and shaking the mist from his brain. Both sides admitted fierce enemy attacks-repulsed, of course-and neither side claimed the capture of any important town. In the south, the Germans sent up tank replacements painted green for spring...
Although this move meant a possible delay in the repeal of Section 6, and a probable knockdown, drag-out fight, it was also a stride toward honesty in facing the real issue: How much more is the U.S. going to do against Hitler...