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...three feet high, and high-legged hogs stood up to their chocolate-colored rumps in lush, weedy meadows. Wild hollyhocks and roses splashed the fence lines with color, but nowhere bloomed a fairer flower for Hoosier politicians to gaze upon than their radiantly handsome master, Paul Vories McNutt, returning home to do some hoeing in his own back row. For Paul McNutt's Presidential hopes, carefully nursed through many a long winter, were at last up knee-high with the corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: White-Haired Boy | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Indiana's Paul Vories McNutt landed in California from the Philippines. His friend Senator Minton announced: "The entire McNutt campaign is predicated on the assumption the President will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Seeds of 1940 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Farley got right down to the grassroots, motored from Salina to Topeka with stops at a dozen towns. Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona were on his course, then California, where he may encounter one ambitious Democrat who can be nominated only over Jim Farley's dead body: Paul Vories McNutt, High Commissioner of the Philippines, who sailed for home last week to start his campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unrumpled Traveler | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Rube Goldberg, who draws the screwiest comic strips in the U. S. (Boob McNutt, Lala Palooza), and the stodgy New York Sun have one thing in common: conservatism in politics. Last week the Sun hired Rube as its political cartoonist, first one it has had in 18 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rube in the Sun | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...discontent of farmers over AAA's failure to elevate corn and wheat prices was a dominant election factor in the Midwest. In Indiana the McNutt machine behind Senator Van Nuys and in Illinois the Horner machine, allied for the emergency with the Chicago juggernaut of Mayor Kelly & Boss Nash behind Representative Scott Lucas, overrode farmer discontent. In Nebraska only Governor Cochran, who publicized his State's economy and low taxes, survived a Republican sweep. In Iowa, Governor Kraschel was pitchforked out by 40,000 votes, mostly corn farmers'. In Kansas, the sentiment of wheat farmers was even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Grand Sashay | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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