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...know it everybody's bein' as colorful as a cartoon, droppin' g's, singin' passels of ungrammatical songs (" 'bout you, 'bout me, 'bout us, 'bout we") and pronouncin' just about ev-erythin' on the fust syllable: Ree-pub-lican, convention, Yew-nited States, till you'd like to die gagging at some of the laffs...
...drive for next year's Repub lican presidential nomination, Barry Goldwater has been badly bothered by the widespread report (true) that Senior Republican Dwight Eisenhower was mad at him, and the notion (un true) that Ike would actively oppose his candidacy...
...King's Men. The same group of men then got up, walked across the street to the Café des Deux Magots, and awarded the Prix des Deux Magots, sponsored by the owners of the café, to Jean Masares for his Comme le pélican du-désert. Over on the Right Bank that same afternoon the editors of the newspaper Parisien Libéré were awarding its Prix de la Vérité to a book reporting bad conditions in French hospitals. The Prix Scarron for books of humor went to Ernestine Gilbreth...
...Michigan has been a faith fully Republican district since 1898 when Joseph Warren ("Old Joe") Fordney, co author of the 1922 Tariff Act, took it away from Ferdinand Brucker, Demo cratic father of Michigan's present Repub lican Governor. Year ago the late Bird J. Vincent, thin, greyish Republican Representative, defeated a big, blond, slow-moving Democrat named Michael J. ("Mike") Hart by 20,000 votes. This year Mr. Hart, a bean jobber of Saginaw who runs an 800-acre farm, was again nominated, this time against Republican Foss O. Eldred of Ionia. Nominee Hart declared Wet, had the support...
...Representative Cooper entered the House in 1893 (53rd Congress). His anti-War stand caused his defeat for the 66th Congress (1919-21). He was re-elected in 1920. Total service: 35 years.? Representative Cooper made a memorable impression upon all delegates at the G. O. P. Repub- lican National Convention at Cleveland in 1924 when, a La Follette supporter, he defied the Old Guard in a thumping speech from the rostrum...