Word: swats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, for all his uniquely good record as a wartime administrator, was still the kind of man voters would love to swat at the polls. So was Presidential alter ego Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, universally believed to be the man Franklin Roosevelt had chosen as his successor, had failed to grow up as a politico: for all his good intentions and ready-made opportunities, he was still the same thoughtful, bashful, stumbling man who used to throw boomerangs at himself in East Potomac Park. To professional politicians, Democratic and Republican, he would always have...
This Saturday Cornell visits Soldiers Field for a doubleheader while the Tigers play host to Penn. Those four games, won by the "right" teams, could turn the tide of the 1942 campaign. Meanwhile, however, Princeton will take a swat at Columbia tomorrow. Although Cornell is on the bottom of the heap, she is 33 percentage points nearer the Crimson than Princeton is on the opposite...
...Wrote Baseball's Akhoond of Swat, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, that he felt it was best for the country to keep professional baseball going during...
George Herman Ruth (ne Gerhardt), New York's happy-go-lucky Bambino, broke fewer records but drew more fans. He too could break up a ball game singlehanded. Before he became the "Sultan of Swat," the Babe was a good southpaw for the Boston Red Sox. In two World Series (1916 and 1918), he pitched a total of 29 consecutive innings without allowing a run. Twice, in later World Series, he hit three home runs in one game. Ruth once scored 60 homers in one season...
Only amateurs in Government, said he, grinning, talk of putting a pooh-bah, a Tsar or an Akhund of Swat in charge of national defense. No one man knows enough for the job. Better, said he, to have on the board management (Knudsen), labor (Hillman) and the user-buyers of national defense products (Navy's Knox, Army's Stimson). Under their four-man chairmanship (if it works that way) will be planned the three big Ps of industrial defense: 1) Production, 2) Purchasing, 3) Priorities. The National Defense Advisory Commission will go on planning, advising...