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...Rico's Coalition Party, begging President Roosevelt to take Rex Tugwell away. In Washington, slick-haired, solemn Bolivar Pagan, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, passionately denounced Rex Tugwell as "an American quisling." Said Commissioner Pagan: "He is doing everything so that loyal American citizens in Puerto Rico become sore and disunited. . . . Governor Tugwell is doing a good job for the Axis powers...
Last week the Kazaks were still waiting contentedly in their camp. They watched delightedly as the little ambulance of the Kashmir Animal Welfare Association chugged into camp to doctor the sore feet of their camels. The black-eyed, round-faced children played cheerfully after so many months strapped to high, silver-mounted saddles on the swaying backs of camels...
...Vermont Republican Robert E. Healy, sole remaining "charter member" of the five-man SEC, Franklin Roosevelt last week sent a message: would he please reconsider his resignation? This was not the first time that temperamental "Judge" Healy, sore at New Deal politicking within the commission, had threatened to quit. But never before had he gone so far as to submit his resignation...
...77th Congress had started, in a thoroughly confused, sour mood. Republicans were sore at Franklin Roosevelt for getting himself elected to a third term. They were sore at Wendell Willkie because he had lost, because he supported the President's theme of aid to Britain. Democratic isolationists, Anglo-phobes, Southern reactionaries glared distrustfully at Mr. Roosevelt...
...javelin was given the permanent toss by Big Ten officials for two main reasons: (1) the event has proved detrimental to participants, resulting in innumerable sore muscles and dead arms and (2) it is dangerous for spectators...