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"Not Our Boys." As the debate rolled on, Missouri's knob-nosed Clarence Cannon pitched in. As chairman of the House Appropriations Committee he held too important a post to make a foolish, tactless speech. But Missourian Cannon made one anyhow, with a blast that all but declared war...
Under the wet Indiana sky last week the delicate green of winter wheat lighted loam-black fields. The last snow had melted. Fat sows, trailed by stiff-legged shoats, nosed through the early budding clover. Factory-bright tractors roared across the fields; loaded manure spreaders clumped and rumbled. The smell...
Having plenty of the vegetable but lacking cash (so they cannily said), the villagers threatened to pay their taxes in potatoes. Indignantly the local government posted notices that it would not receive potatoes. Sniffing a story, a newspaperman nosed in from nearby Limoges. As he stopped to photograph the potato...
Custom tailors got their annual pre-spring urge to name the ten best-dressed men in the U.S. Among the victors: Dean Acheson (who nosed out Harry S. Truman in the Government employee category), Clark Gable, Harold E. Stassen, and baseball's Lou Boudreau.
But for the real meat of the poll, solemn re-educators of the Germans had to look farther down, where the republic's appeasing Gustav Stresemann, with 580 votes, just nosed out Adolf Hitler, who got 513. The Germans apparently did not think much of the U.S.'s...