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...Francisco is the place where young Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York State was wildly acclaimed as the Vice Presidential candidate just before the Democratic Party went down to ignominious defeat, in 1920. Chicago is the place on the shores of Lake Michigan that many a politico wishes he had been for Roosevelt before...
...role of 1940 politico, John Lewis first dusted off Indiana's Paul Vories McNutt, whom nobody had considered a likely bidder for C. I. O. support. To a gallery of undesirables which already included John Nance ("Evil Old Man") Garner, Boss Lewis also added Cordell Hull, with unkind references to his trade agreements...
This sort of thing breathed o'er Manhattan for two years. A proposal to put a comfort station in the Central Park elephant house brought a politico to his feet to inquire why, in the name of Big Tim, did elephants need comfort stations? Councilman Sharkey regularly aired his heartfelt campaign to insure full measure in beer glasses. Once towering, revolutionary-stocky Fusionist A. Newbold Morris, Council president, started down from the chair, gavel in hand, after cocky little Democrat Charley Keegan from The Bronx. "Come down here," yelled Councilman Keegan, dancing joyously, "I'll cut you down...
...traditional boast of many a U. S. politico has been: ". . . Up from nothing." Bob Taft came up from plenty. Says he, who had more than one silver spoon in his cradle: "One with a family name has a lot to live up to." But Lawyer Taft, Yale '10, put the spoons to work. Uncle Charles had a chunk of Cincinnati's Street Railway System, wanted the complicated setup reorganized. Specializing in dry, dull, technical cases, Bob Taft worked on this complex chore off-&-on for eleven years, finished straightening it out in 1925. In this...
These sentiments did credit to Dr. Frank Buchman, who first interested Mr. Woodring (and many another Washington politico) in moral reformation last spring. But, said Harry Woodring after he had finished his speech: "I'm really not a Buchmanite. I think Moral Rearmament is a great, tremendous influence for good, and it ought to be encouraged. I'm very strong for it. But I'm not a convert." Uplifted by a pile of commendatory messages and cablegrams from as far off as Ireland, Mr. Woodring then went back to his business of rearming the U. S. Army...