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...77th U.S. Congress was ready this week to throw in the sponge. Its term had begun in the ominously peaceful days of January 1941, when an owlish, cactaceous man named John Nance Garner still presided over the Senate; any hope of ending its term in an aura of statesmanship had now faded...
...grounds of Missouri's Capitol at Jefferson City repose three old cannon from bygone wars. Every time that Ralph Coghlan, a ruddy, owlish man who breathes fire and snorts the editorial page of the famed St. Louis Post-Dispatch, thought about them it made him mad. He thought they belonged on the nation's scrap pile. But Missouri's earnest, toothy Governor Forrest C. Donnell said he could not prove that the State owned the cannon, therefore could not give them away. This made Ralph Coghlan even madder...
...acid-tongued, bombastic Tom Connally of Texas, floor manager of the poll-tax State foray; Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, who once proposed deportation of Negroes to Liberia; Tennessee's bumbling Kenneth McKellar, still chafing from his arrest for dodging Senate attendance (TIME, Nov. 23); and owlish Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, only Democratic Senator from a non-poll-tax State to take the floor against constitutionality of the bill. O'Mahoney said he had no love for poll taxes, but their abolition was a job for the States, not the Federal Government...
This standardization was long expected and much needed. Details were worked out by owlish WPBoss Donald Nelson and aristocratic, mustachioed Captain Oliver Lyttelton, British Minister of Production, who will probably head a permanent Joint Production Board...
...thoroughly in accord with the principles of the America First Committee." The Committee opposed the Lend-Lease Bill, has opposed the transfer of war supplies to Britain, recently received a pat on the back in a radio broadcast from Berlin. Last week, fast-talking Mr. Christoffel and owlish, wealthy Mr. Babb glared at each other over the thicket of their differences. Thorniest was the issue of the closed shop...