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...know," began the diminutive politician, once jailed, an admitted bribee,* who fired 179 State college professors in one swoop and refused to convene the Mississippi Legislature for fear it would impeach him, "you know, I'm a trouble shooter. If anything goes wrong with this Farm Relief Act, I'm supposed to know about it right away. I keep in touch with the way people are thinking. I'm going to read all kinds of newspapers and magazines...
...Nampa, Idaho, where a United Farmers' League was in process of organization, one William Ai Frost jumped up and shouted: "Just give me a six-shooter and four red-blooded men who will have the nerve to follow me and we'll make the Legislature put through any law we want...
...tart tongue has made many a Democrat wince.* Victor over him was Democrat Fred H. Brown, onetime Governor, new Public Service Commissioner. The Brown attack: "Moses is a hireling of the power interests. The Insulls and others paid Moses' campaign expenses. He hasn't been a square-shooter in New Hampshire politics in a generation. He votes dry and drinks wet, pats the War veteran on the back with one hand and cuts his throat with the other." Husky Senator-elect Brown chews Navy cut plug, makes a thundering speech...
...Tail'' while his wife "Powder River Kitty " in another ten-gallon hat. played the guitar. Back in his hotel Powder River Jack Lee received reporters, expressed himself on the way cowboy songs are sung over the radio: One old cowrboy I know pulled his six-shooter and plugged a hole right through his own radio when he heard one of them cowboy crooners ! The cowboys never crooned or whined. And they never yodeled. If they had, we'd of strung them...
...Preliminary last week, first shooter in the field to post 25 straight was 17-year-old Bobby Olds of Lansing, Mich., who had a special desire to win. Last spring his family was evicted from their farm. Young Olds hawked vegetables, cultivated an onion patch, spent his spare time loading traps for the North Lansing Gun Club whose members taught him about shooting and gave him his entrance fee and transportation to Vandalia. At 50 and at 75, last week, young Bobby Olds was still firing without a miss, from 21 yd. Running up a perfect score is more...