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Harry Truman's feud with Roger C. Slaughter was neither pretty to watch nor quick...
...started in 1946, when the President decided to purge him from Congress because Slaughter, a Democrat from part of Harry Truman's own home territory, the Fifth Missouri District, persistently voted against the Truman program. Jim Pendergast, his Kansas City henchmen and other good Democrats, including the late Charlie Binaggio, were quick to oblige, but they were a little clumsy about it. They purged Roger Slaughter in the primaries, all right, but they let a Republican win the seat in the finals. And, after the election, 118 vote-fraud indictments were returned against Democratic primary workers. (Two were convicted...
Professor Seitz truly states that what we need most today is a sense of desperate urgency. However, it ought to jolt us that he can recommend for this need only the invention of new means of mass slaughter...
...when Harry Truman ordered the purge of Representative Roger Slaughter, Binaggio was able to deliver the votes in good oldtime style. There was some unpleasantness when a grand jury indicted 67 Binaggio helpers for vote fraud, but that was taken care of: someone blew open the election board's safe and made off with the incriminating poll books...
Working Farm. To Bombay Supplies Minister, Dinkerrao Desai, the slaughter and the filthy, foolish dairy methods are horrifying. For the past two years he has directed the building of a huge modern dairy farm on the outskirts of Bombay. Just north of the city limits, Desai bought 3,500 acres of palm-covered hills at a place called Aarey (rhymes with starry). There, he has built seven self-sufficient dairy-farm units with airy, concrete stables, with scrubbed floors, neat feed bins and washing ponds filled with clear water. Hills have been leveled for grazing lands. The units now have...