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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republicans. Away for a fortnight's holiday at Jupiter Island, off Florida's east coast, went ex-Candidate Wendell Willkie, his future unknown and unannounced. To his 10,000-odd Willkie Clubs went the word that a respite from politics until mid-December was in order, then, for those with crusaders' stomachs, a new organization aiming at 1944. Probable new name: "We the People...
This is my answer to that unknown Frenchwoman who wrote the letter entitled "Speak to Us" [TIME, Oct. 28]: Chere Madame...
William T. Pheiffer, 42, Republican, of New York's famed Gashouse (16th) District, beat James H. Fay, New Dealer, who purged Old Dealer John J. O'Connor in 1938. Pheiffer and Republicans were stunned by his victory. Pheiffer was unknown, a Texan, a lawyer, a 21-month Republican resident of a sure Tammany district. It looked suspiciously as if Tammany, not liking New Dealer Fay, had decided to hand the district over for two years to a Republican...
...billing. But the jumper who has brought down the house night after night, year after year, is Little Squire, a white gelding only 13.2 hands high (4 ft. 5 in.). Little Squire was born in County Limerick 15 years ago. His dam was a Welsh pony, his sire an unknown thoroughbred. When he was six (and known as First Attempt), he humbled Ireland's best "leppers," jumping 6 ft. 6 in. in the stonewall class at Dublin's famed Horse Show...
...private fends between Al Aldrich and John Teal for the left end post and "Swede" Anderson and Tom Cowen for the fullback berth are still going strong, with the eventual starter in each of these positions as yet unknown...