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...Houston marched into Washington with a big sombrero on his head, an Indian blanket over his shoulders and a tiger-skin vest around his middle, sat in the Senate for 13 years whittling at a stack of wood. But he was a gallant, handsome man, with the Indian's poise and dignity, and even Virginia ladies loved him, until he began to talk against secession. Back in Texas as Governor, he lost his office when he refused to swear allegiance to the Confederate Government. The whole South drummed "the hoary-haired traitor" to his grave...
Then came the Inaugural and so far as the public was concerned John Nance Garner was just one more Alexander Throttlebottom.† He made no public speeches, seldom said anything to the Press, refused to go out socially. Once a year he clapped on his silk hat like a sombrero and dined formally with the President at the White House. Once a year he returned the President's invitation at his hotel. Outside the Senate he was seen three or four afternoons a week in his reserved box at the ball park or occasionally riding through the streets...
...Imagine sombrero-wearing William Randolph Hearst editing with Communist zeal the Great American Farm Newspaper and you begin to have some faint idea of Comrade Yakov Arkadevich Yakovlev...
...that such men as these should be locked in the insane asylum." Another addressed itself to U. S. bankers, college presidents. Senators, Governors and Mayors who have in times past visited Mexico City, been received by Governor Saenz, fêted and presented with a souvenir sombrero made with pure silver. "If any of you," Frente á Frente wound up, "have been presented with one of these pure silver 'charro sombreros' and take pride in showing it to your friends as the most wonderful souvenir from old romantic Mexico, maybe after reading this article you will...
Such was the Washington situation fortnight ago when Mr. Roosevelt returned from Warm Springs and Mr. Garner returned from Uvalde, with a new tan sombrero, terming himself "just a country boy trying to get along with the city slickers." Promptly they put their heads together, decided it was politically too dangerous to try to spike Mr. Byrns's ambitions. So Mr. Garner emerged from the White House and slyly told reporters in answer to questions...