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...despised. "The 'filthy rich' drove behind high-stepping horses drawing ornate equipages from which tall-hatted coachmen and footmen surveyed their surroundings with a truly devastating scorn." For three years Harold Ickes glared at "the intangible ingredients out of which a careful architect was to build a robust curmudgeonly character." He learned to mix Seidlitz powders in such a way that a glassful would explode "into the nostrils and the eyes" of a customer he disliked...
...story of Colonel Stephen Watts Kearny's conquest of the Southwest is more epic and just as robust. Kearny had volunteer trouble too. As he boarded a steamboat before the start of his expedition, he ordered the sentry not to let the volunteers follow him. But they stormed the gangplank. Cried one of the new conquistadors, slapping his commander on the back: "You don't git off from us, old hoss! For by Ingin corn we'll go plum through fire and thunder with you. What'll you drink, General? Don't be back...
...warm, human, robust critic of life as well as literature, H. M. Jones is an inspiring personage. Perhaps some measure of the tolerant breadth and intellectual depth of the man may be indicated by his words of 1939 before the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee...
...shifted his strategy, attacked trusts for their sins against defense, smashed Hydra-headed I. G. Farbenindustrie's patent hold on the U.S. But soon he was back in essential war industries, striking out for his ideal of free pricing. The Army & Navy began to complain of his robust interference. Thurman Arnold went right ahead building up a case against railroads for rate fixing; Attorney General Francis Biddie turned thumbs down. Arnold's ride as a trust buster was over...
Chile's break with the Axis had been expected sooner. But one last fling at an attempt to tie her course to Argentine neutrality had delayed the action by a week. Robust old (74) Arturo Alessandri, three-time President and "Lion of Tarapacá," rallied the opposition parties of the Right, brought forth a manifesto asking for a plebiscite on the issue. Perhaps the most vigorous and picturesque bourgeois liberal in half a century of Chilean politics, Alessandri succeeded in provoking a new storm of discussion. But the Government prudently declared a plebiscite unconstitutional. A Congress majority, from Radicals...