Word: picklers
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That chance was dumped in the Chamber's lap by two tycoons and the U.S. Press. Feeling an urge to play on Mr. Roosevelt's side, President Lewis Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. and Pickler Howard Heinz hastened to Washington, there to talk with the President and conservative New Dealers. Messrs. Heinz & Brown soon gathered that, if private enterprise could hoist the business curve a notch or two in the next 60 days, there was reasonable hope of keeping the Administration a little to the Right of Centre. With some tangible evidence of Recovery in his hands...
...Pickler, Assassin...
...butt of Speaker Reed's observation was not Georgia's Watson but the late Congressman John Alfred Pickler of South Dakota. Not in the House but privately outside, Speaker Reed, habitually polite of speech, said: "I have read and heard much of the Wild Ass's Colt of the Desert, but I never had any clear conception of what manner of animal it really was till I saw Pickler in action...
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