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...scores of others). Their Senate numbers grew slightly, and their leaders were daisy-fresh and whip-smart. Lanky, dimpling Mr. Wheeler daily needled his foes so expertly that they forgot their vows of silence in roars of rage, whereat Mr. Wheeler cut them down as efficiently as a Greek sniper...
...Horace Pippin hung around the race track at Goshen, N. Y., sketching the trotters on odd scraps of paper. Later, as a husky moving-man, he used to ask for the job of crating people's paintings, so he could touch and study the oils. When a German sniper's dumdum bullet ploughed out a big hunk of his right shoulder in October 1918, after he had served 14 months in front-line trenches with his Negro National Guard company, Horace Pippin was invalided home as a total disability. But still he kept wanting to paint. Unable...
Baiting an Administration's chief fiscal officer is no new pastime for hard-shelled, money-wise old Senator Glass. Neither is it for Mississippi's long-legged, long-nosed Pat Harrison. Together they were the most painful and damaging Democratic snipers on the flanks of the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Then their victims were shy old Andrew Mellon and Utah's mournful Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Four years of responsibility as Senate Finance Chairman during the first New Deal and a lifetime habit of party loyalty changed Pat Harrison from a sniper...
...armies of Rebel Generalissimo Francisco Franco marched up to Barcelona on three sides last week and, with no more than a sniper's fusillade, the biggest city in Spain fell. No European military action comparable to it had taken place since the Prussians took Paris in 1871, and, according to all calculations, the Spanish Rebels like the Prussians, had won their...
...feelings by agreeing to a request of the Moslem Supreme Council to permit 40 Arabs to attend the Friday noon prayers at the Mosque of Omar so that those services, held every Friday for centuries, would not be interrupted. When, on the third day of the siege, a minaret sniper killed a British soldier that permission was withdrawn...