Word: ten-gallon
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...President on the first ballot. Democrat Jim Farley swigged tomato juice (his strongest tope) at a succession of Manhattan cocktail parties, let "friends" announce to the press that he also has first-ballot prospects (if Franklin Roosevelt does not run). Paul McNutt paraded through Guthrie, Okla., in a ten-gallon hat. Georgia Democrats swiped the State's convention delegation from Senator Walter Franklin George, plumped for Third Term. Another 1940 prospect who made a little news and some progress was Wendell Willkie...
...Klamath Falls, Ore. is none other than Henry Ashurst's brother, Edward Bates Ashurst. Slight, dapper Judge Ashurst first got elected to the bench in 1934, tried vainly in 1937 to join his brother in the U. S. Senate. He continued to ornament Klamath Falls with his ten-gallon hats, his string ties, sideburns, frock coats, morning trousers, and the fanciest flow of language west of Henry Fountain Ashurst...
...large crowd further swelled by a number assembled to say farewell to a departing evangelist), delivered ten formal addresses, held eleven big press conferences, appeared at ten scheduled receptions, and shaken hands with 15,000 voters. He had collected two ten-gallon hats, a case of canned corn, had watched the dance of the Nez Percé Indians and had been serenaded in Portland, Ore., by a fife & drum corps of Civil War veterans whose leader was 95. His secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains...
...Smith Goes to Washington (Columbia). Last week U. S. audiences, smiling in anticipation, trooped into movie houses to see smart Director Frank Capra repeat his Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in a Boy Scout uniform and a Senator's ten-gallon hat. What they saw was just as funny as Mr. Deeds, but it did not leave them smiling...
...opponents Frye and Kratz went hangar-flying over drinks in a nearby bar, became fast friends. A few weeks ago they met again on a New Mexico dude ranch at a meeting of Conquistadores del Cielo (Conquerors of the Sky), an airline executives' organization for making hoopla in ten-gallon hats and hair pants (see cut). Over the poker table where they played with steady hand for fat stakes, and on horseback trips where they rode for saddle-galls, the deal was made. The sale was for cash, in which Marquette's chief financial backer, Pittsburgh Capitalist John...