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...successful Boss of The Bronx and unsuccessful chairman of the National Democratic Committee, to be the President's personal Ambassador and Minister to Australia. To critics who failed to find any diplomatic qualifications in the background of hard-bitten Politician Flynn, this looked like the worst kind of lame-duck appointment. Cried Wendell Willkie: "The appointment is ... revolting to all decent citizens. The difference between the high professions of President Roosevelt's and Vice President Wallace's speeches and the Administration's low political performance is a tragic paradox...
Somebody asked him why. Using the same euphemisms as his letter of resignation to Franklin Roosevelt, the Price Boss mentioned his lame back, his "rather bad impairment of eyesight." He pointed to a sign which cried TURN OUT LIGHT! in letters nearly two inches high. "Why, I can't read that at all," he said...
...succeed volcanic Leon Henderson as Price Boss (see above), Franklin Roosevelt last week chose a man who seldom erupts: able, steady, slow-burning Senator Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat and-through no fault of his own-a lame duck. Senator Brown did not want the job: after his defeat by Michigan's popular Judge Homer Ferguson last month (TIME, Nov. 16), he was ready to go back home to resume his law practice. But when the White House put the job up to him as a patriotic duty, conscientious Prentiss Brown had no choice...
When the big Army bomber which was taking Captain Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker on a special mission for the Secretary of War ran out of gas in the Southwest Pacific (TIME, Nov. 2), the U.S. press sadly hauled out Eddie's obituaries. Eddie was 52, still lame from a plane crash in 1941. He had cheated death numberless times as an auto racing driver and as top U.S. flying ace in World War I. There seemed little hope this time...
...year career he had achieved a record few men in U.S. history have equaled. Almost singlehandedly he brought about abolition of "lame duck" Congresses; he was largely responsible for Nebraska's unicameral legislature, for the TVA. But now the Senate would be without him. George W. Norris, running for re-election at 81, had been defeated...