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Only slightly more agonizing than young Mr. Fairbanks' throes in putting this subversive two & two together is the sight of middle-aged Mr. Rathbone, as a sort of Imperial Rover Boy, lashing about the jungle in bush jacket and shorts, caught barekneed between Love & Duty...
Principal transaction of the meeting was to elect a new president, William Gibson Carey Jr. (head of Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., hardware), who in personal contacts is a kind of fun-loving Tom Rover. Drafted because he is "a victim of his friends" where Civic Virtue is concerned, President Carey explained that to him the Capitalist is "The Forgotten Man, 1939." He is committed to winning "commonsense legislation...
Barrel-built, barrel-headed Herr Hoffmann came by his titles and his monopoly by joining the Nazis in 1919 and publishing a series of propaganda picture books with such Rover Boys titles as With Hitler Over Germany, Youth About Hitler, Hitler in His Mountains, etc. In 1934 Hitler made him party photographer; in 1937, a Professor, a title which in Germany no more denotes pedagogy than it does on the U. S. vaudeville stage. For five years he has been a constant companion and sometime adviser of the ReichsFührer, helping to fill the place once occupied by "Putzy...
Other witness-of-the-week was Thomas R. (for nothing) Amlie, the Red rover from Wisconsin named by Franklin Roosevelt for the Interstate Commerce Commission, chiefly to provoke an airing of that sombre body (TIME, Feb. 6). Lumbering, loquacious Mr. Amlie conducted his self-defense before a Senate subcommittee with heavy, self-centred humor. He said he had always "hoped to make good in some big way," and now he had done so-"in the field of incompetency." Not since the appointment of Louis Dembitz Brandeis to the Supreme Court, said he, had there been such opposition as there...
...further probing into UnAmerican Activities. Mr. Dies promptly went shopping for investigators, ex-G-Men preferred. But Speaker Bankhead struck one last minute blow for the Leftists. To a vacancy on the Dies Committee he appointed California's earnest young Representative Jerry Voorhis, good friend of Red Rover Amlie and, since the departure of Texas' Maury Maverick,* leader of the Young Turks in the House. Son of a millionaire, Jerry Voorhis turned down a fat sum his father offered to set him up in business. Instead, after getting his $BK at Yale, he worked as a cowboy...