Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morris Sheppard's death stampeded Texas' political cattle. As Senator Sheppard's casket went quietly down Texarkana's State Line Avenue to the little cemetery last week, Red-Hunter Martin Dies, Attorney General Gerald C. Mann, a horde of shorthorns were hot after the seat. Texas' House of Representatives petitioned Governor W. Lee ("Pass-The-Biscuits-Pappy") O'Daniel to appoint himself for the 90-day interim before an election must be held. Pappy held his peace, and pondered. Morris Sheppard was buried. The little people of Texas, the Anti-Saloon League of America...
...published handsomely made, handsomely printed books at about half the regular price. Among the authors: Thomas Mann, John Galsworthy, Theodore Dreiser, Homer, Shakespeare. It was the prototype of the Book-of-the-Month Club here...
...prolific was Bangs that the number of his pseudonyms put a strain on his wit. They included Shakespeare Jones, Gaston V. Drake, Periwinkle Podmore, Horace Dodd Gastit, A. Sufferan Mann. In politics he was defeated for Mayor of Yonkers, but became a very useful bird dog for the imperialism of Roosevelt I and General Leonard Wood in Cuba (on which he wrote a book) and in the Philippines. Had Wood been nominated in 1920, Bangs would probably have gone to the Court of St. James's. In the reconstruction of France he more or less worked himself to death...
...Mann, as his name suggests, is a patient, courageous believer buffeted by an angry sea of unbelief, a symbol of the rocky virtues that keep man's head above water. Life for Job and his wife, Katie, has been secure and happy until age, illness and the Great Depression force them to apply for "public assistance." Thence he is plunged into a world he never knew -a world of hate, whores, idiots, stinking tenements and the loathed "Welfares." It is a world well known to Caroline Slade. When her mother read a preceding novel, The Triumph of Willie Pond...
Consequently her Job Mann is an even more resolute character than Ma Joad Determined to pull himself and his companions up from slime, malnutrition and poverty, he succeeds. If she sometimes belabors a point, ofttimes overwrites, Author Slade nevertheless carries her thesis -a quotation from her lawyer-husband, John A. Slade: "It is strange how most of us go through life, knowing so little about it, nourished on vague hopes, half-beliefs, and repressions . . .; in a crisis, it may be that only those who are capable of deliberate choice and planning shall survive...