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Last week Marshall Field X'ed him out too. Announced reason: Evans' job of making the Sun rise had been done; he wanted to get back to his Nashville Tennessean. Speculated reasons: 1) long-simmering incompatibility between Field and Evans; 2) Field's realization (probably with Washington prodding) that in business-minded, conservative Evans he had the wrong man to run a newspaper tinted with New Dealish liberalism...
Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar, 74-year-old, fancy-dressing Tennessean, introduced a bill providing that Senators be given cards explaining that they are Senators. Reason: in Capitol offices many a guard has been keeping them at arm's length till they could prove their identity. The bill passed unanimously...
Human. The political cemetery is full of headstones carved with the names of those who have crossed the will of the feuding, cussing Tennessean who heads the State Department. But if Cordell Hull found any pleasure in having sacked Sumner Welles, whom the New York Post called "a symbol of international cooperation in our foreign affairs," last week he gave no sign...
...Washington saying of the past decade is that the city is littered with the bones of men who have opposed Cordell Hull; that the old Tennessean feuder works quietly and cautiously but he always gets his man. That man is anyone who tries to run any part of foreign policy while the State Department is still around. Ranked by protocol as No. 1 Cabinet officer, the Secretary of State normally bosses all U.S. dealings with foreign governments. His corps of deft protocol artists has never allowed a mere war agency to forget...
Like Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, brilliant commander of U.S. Forces in the European Theater, sandy-haired Major General Thomas ("Tom") Handy has a "star in his pocket" (Army phrase for being a man to watch). General Handy, 50-year-old Tennessean, who succeeded Eisenhower as Chief of the Operations Division on the General Staff in Washington, is almost unknown to U.S. citizens. Yet last week (as every week since his appointment) he worked about twelve hours a day for seven days on problems that worry U.S. citizens more than death & taxes: the second front and fronts all over...