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Worker. Republican leaders needed a strong man to head off Gerald Smith. They found him in mild-mannered, hardworking Judge Ferguson. In three years, working as a one-man grand jury, silver-haired Judge Ferguson had mopped up gambling and vice rackets with an annual take of $20,000,000, had sent nearly a dozen city officials and scores of bribe-taking policemen to jail (TIME, June 1). He talked little about democracy, tried his best to make it work...
...date the minute it was published. Throughout the U.S. there was no longer "habitual indifference to Governmental management." Governmental management-and mismanagement-was burning the people up. But what could they do? They had thrown a vaudeville dancer out of Civilian Defense; they had got themselves a one-man management of war production; they had kicked up a furor that killed Pensions-For-Congress...
...Manhattan one Dr. A. L. Soresi started a one-man campaign exhorting the press to "stop at once all advertising and the reporting of news not essential to winning the war." Retorted the press's excitable trade organ, Editor & Publisher: "He forgets that Americans are not Germans, Italians or Japanese, accustomed to lives of grinding poverty, but a people who must have a certain amount of play mixed with their serious business, even in the midst...
...friend William Griffin, violently anti-British publisher of the New York Enquirer; wild-eyed, red-haired Mrs. Elizabeth (Red Network) Billing, Gerald B. Winrod, publisher of the Defender, notorious preacher of racial and religious intolerance; Prescott Freeze Dennett, organizer of the Islands for War Debts Committee, operator of a one-man isolationist news service (an Army draftee, he was arrested in a St. Louis barracks); Nazi Agent George Sylvester Viereck, now in prison for failing to disclose in full his connection with the Nazi Government...
...headliners were sore. They went to the mat with May. When May threatened to "call the whole thing off," the big shots decided to carry on-most of them flaunting their numbers defiantly on the backs of their pants. After the racket subsided, the tournament settled down to a one-man show-starring Defending Champion Byron Nelson...