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...beast was no longer skinny and bag-kneed; its once limp and drooping trunk now swayed with menacing promise. But the G.O.P. elephant mostly drowsed or shifted from foot to foot. Every time the Party seemed about to wake up, a red-faced, elderly mahout named Harrison Spangler tiptoed up and made quiet, shushing nursery-noises until the pachyderm was soothed and drowsy again...
...mules. They cross this stiff country at the lordly rate of ten miles a day. They also help sappers build bridges. They can work about nine months in the year. The most famous elephant assisting the Indian Army is Bandula, named after a famous Burmese general. Bandula's mahout receives "danger pay" because the elephant has already killed two keepers...
Last week Missionary Hatch had a little trouble with the congregation. He could console himself with the fact that the week before had been even tougher (TIME, March 18). Rallied behind Gospeleer Hatch were Mahout Charles McNary of Oregon and his 22 Republican elephants, all of them acting like poker-faced converts, but none of whom had ever before shown any absorbing interest in pure politics. At his shoulder were Kentucky's Alben Barkley and Happy Chandler, whose desperately dirty 1938 campaign had roused public support to Hatch Bill I. Then Senate Leader Barkley had used WPA to counteract...
Finale. Despairing of victory, unable to dent Mr. Hatch's annoying highmindedness, griped at Mahout McNary's now open grins, New Dealers began a mild filibuster. With the Senate geared to take up farm appropriations and the reciprocal trade agreements, plan was to talk the Hatch Bill into a pigeonhole. Eloquent Mr. Lee took the floor for a 90-minute speech on farm tenants' problems. To smiling Mahout McNary (one of a half-dozen drowsing Senators listening) reporters sent in a query: Was the Lee speech a filibuster? Mr. McNary answered: "Filibuster? I consider this the greatest...
...country. Fanny Perkins gets it coming & going from A. F. of L. and C. I. O. Louis Johnson is supposed to be running the Army and Attorney General Murphy is out to steal poor Tom Dewey's thunder. Harold ("Donald Duck") Ickes is to Republicans a windy mad mahout...