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...just ahead was the "squirrel cage"-the staff of experts and writers whose job was to dig up facts, rough out drafts for Willkie speeches. Head of the squirrel cage was dark, intense Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would...
Senatorial Squirrel Hunter...
...Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, quoted in TIME, Sept. 2, as speaking against conscription ("the squirrel hunters of North Carolina and Kentucky can keep Hitler or anyone else off until the Marines arrive and the situation is well in hand") any relation to a member of Congress of the same name who was held up on the auto road between Mexico [City] and Taxco a few years ago? ... If he is the type of squirrel hunter they have in North Carolina, for God's sake give us conscription quick in the States...
North Carolina's convivial, clownish Senator Robert Rice ("Our Bob") Reynolds, speaking against conscription, informed the Senate that "the squirrel hunters of North Carolina and Kentucky can keep Hitler or anyone else off until the Marines arrive and the situation is well in hand...
...squirrel spree forgotten, sugar was back at its humdrum ways: an industry of chronic depression, divided into a number of tough and coony political pressure groups. The U. S. consumes about 6,750,000 tons of sugar a year. The big cane importers and refiners are equipped to serve a market for 8,000,000 tons. Besides this, the relatively high-cost beet operators of the Mountain States, California and Michigan, can turn out 2,000,000 tons. Under a free economy, beet sugar would not get a smell of the domestic market until demand broke all records and exceeded...