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Three weeks ago many a U. S. businessman and soldier of fortune donned boots and sombrero, took his place on the Mexican border, looked over the Rio Grande into a new land of free enterprise. To such as he, Manuel Avila Camacho looked like a relief from the New Deal. If the New Deal had stifled such men's pioneer spirit, a Mexican President might well bring it back. Scarcely had the inaugural words "private initiative" died on his lips when Avila Camacho went down under a deluge of U. S. pioneers. No frontiersman himself, Mexico...
...protest the use of Government pressure to force a shotgun agreement between the C. I. 0. and the A. F. of L."), despite his announcing that his first job was an immediate organizing drive in "Little Steel" and Ford. The show over, John L. Lewis clapped on his grey sombrero, lit one of his endless cigars, and lumbered home to read Shakespeare, satisfied that he was victor in his latest convention battle. Busy Sidney hurried back to his defense job. He had not exactly won the war, but he had a good chance to win the peace...
...himself elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature. He served later in the Territorial Senate. In 1912, Arizona was admitted to Statehood, and Orator Ashurst achieved his great ambition: he was elected as the State's first U. S. Senator. Arrayed in a black sombrero, high-heeled cowboy boots, he went to Washington...
...President still relies on moving pictures, and his favorites, like many another citizen's, are animated cartoons. He gets little time for his beloved stamp collection, little time to con his ship models, his collection of navy prints. Most cheering note to anti-third-termers: his big tan sombrero, which he wears on campaigns, is packed away many layers deep...
Pausing thoughtfully on the steps, Mr. Harrison sucks heavily on his frankfurter-sized cigar-or Mr. Doughton fiddles with his broad-brimmed sombrero-and says in effect: Revenues are pouring into the Treasury in a way that gladdens our hearts. No tax increases will be necessary...