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...popular, Oregon's Charles Linza McNary prepared to call the first meeting of Republicans, both Progressives and regulars, since he succeeded to the minority leadership. Said he: "All Republicans look alike to me." At the last minute, this gathering was postponed. Idaho's ursine Borah, on the lookout for a saddle horse to replace crippled "Governor" and superannuated "Idaho," notified Oil Administrator Ickes that big petroleum producers were squeezing little ones, that while the oil code increased costs to producers $125,000,000 a year, $486,000,000 in price increases were being passed on to consumers. With...
...Chiselers," "Old Guard lookout men," and "Rugged Individualists," were his principal targets of attack on his barnstorming trips out of Washington to sell NRA to the country. He can whip almost any audience into a fine frenzy of exaltation for the President's recovery program and, adopting a familiar Wartime trick, can make it appear downright unpatriotic to block NRA's advance. Yet for a man who lives by invective and abuse of his foes, General Johnson is surprisingly thin- skinned to criticism of himself and his cause...
Minneapolis. Fifteen thousand people swarmed into the Minneapolis Auditorium to hear General Johnson warm up by denouncing "chiselers" and "old guard lookout men." "These are rugged individualists who want to continue to live in the dark ages of human relationships. . . . I'm not going to let them fool the American people. . . . Racketeering is a harsh word. We do not mind it when applied to Al Capone, but these gentlemen do not like to hear it applied to what a Senate committee has disclosed about certain great New York fiduciaries. Why. the truth is, in the light of these developments...
That was the main event on the card but what the crowd had really come to see was not the title match but an astounding 302 lb. freak named Frank ("Man Mountain") Dean whom Promoter Curley, always on the lookout for monstrosities, had found last year in Norcross, Ga. Before that, Man Mountain Dean, reared in Manhattan, had been an unsuccessful stevedore, a sparring partner whom Jess Willard used frequently to knock out. When he became a wrestler three years ago, Man Mountain Dean swore that he would not shave until he won the championship. He now has a bushy...
...attended. Sixty per cent confessed that they would be idle. Forty per cent of these would be searching for jobs, and the remaining 20 per cent taking life as easily as possible. Others would have had jobs ranging from assistant in a cancer research laboratory to lookout on in ice patrol boat in the north Atlantic. Eighteen per cent would be aluminum, book, and encyclopedia salesmen...