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...When Harry Truman announced that he would not be a candidate for President in 1952, many a politico guessed that he would be back in Washington again anyhow-perhaps as a U.S. Senator, or even as a Congressman from Missouri. At times, Truman himself acted as though he were genuinely attracted by the idea of spending his remaining years as a member of the "greatest legislative body in the world," and he consistently refused to deny that he might re-enter political life. Last week, on his way home from New York City, after five months of savoring the joys...
...nearest man, and says, 'Now, what do you want to talk about?' If it's politics, just ask him. He's covered the conventions, interviewed almost all the major names on the front pages, and can give an unadorned, thumbnail description of any politico in the field . . . His return is ever welcome. A big man with a big heart, he gives us encouragement to reach again for the goal...
Even last week, when Tyro Politico Tom Mechling cried over the radio that Biltz gouged him in the clinches in his unsuccessful Senate race with Republican George ("Molly") Malone, a good many Nevadans just didn't quite follow him. When Mechling charged that Biltz was a sinister political boss, who held the state in a "Gestapo-like grip" and stifled the state's press, most were just flabbergasted. Nevada seems like the last place in the world any self-respecting political boss would enter the bossing business...
...talked it into prohibiting both inheritance and income taxes in Nevada. Then, well armed with the names and idiosyncrasies of wealthy prospects, he set out to sell bankrupt ranches as tax havens, and was soon transplanting millionaires to Nevada's soil-e.g., Bing Crosby, Max Fleischmann, Bronx Politico Ed Flynn, Automobile Magnate Errett Lobban Cord, Stock Broker Dean Witter...
...heavily could expect to find advertising from Nevada gamblers mysteriously vanishing from his paper. But even such heretics are forgiven and rewarded if they mend their ways. Recalcitrant Editor M. M. Zenoff of Boulder City was given a fancy public-relations job after he saw the light, and recalcitrant Politico Denver Dickerson, through Pat McCarran, got a job in State Department public relations in exotic Rangoon. Dickerson may yet be brought home to be groomed as the Biltz-McCarran candidate for governor next year...