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Evita herself will take home no papal decoration. Peronistas had hoped she might be given a papal title that would enable Argentina's First Lady, born on the wrong side of the tracks, to out-snoot Buenos Aires' stuffy aristocracy...
Chicago expected better things of its mayoralty campaigns. In times past there had been Big Bill Thompson, protecting them from the British Empire and threatening to punch King George in the snoot. Almost every election spring, charges of whopping graft and corruption hurtled through the air above the neglected streets and the uncollected garbage. This year things were different. Said one oldtimer: "Campaign, hell! This is a pillow fight...
...Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin had built a political machine second to none; Thompson coasted to a second term on the slogan "Freedom for Ireland." His last term (1927-31) was his most colorful. Elected on a promise to "punch King George's snoot" if that worthy ever visited Chicago, he found the city's school books filled with British propaganda, discerned a plot afoot to return the U.S. to the British Empire...
Warren & the West. Earl Warren enjoys being governor of California. But to him one of the best parts of the job is the chance it gives him to take the lead in safeguarding and building the future of the West. California used to snoot its smaller Western neighbors. But Governor Warren called the first conference of the governors of the eleven Western states at Salt Lake City last May. A third meeting will be held soon...
Best tidbits in Snoot If You Must are its stories. Samples...