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...First Congressional District since 1932. He campaigned with a splash: big billboards, solid newspaper support, and batteries of girls telephoning the citizenry. He hammered at one issue-New Deal bureaucracy. Democrats got a slow start, waiting for their wounded hero, 30-year-old Major Carl E. Wuertele (pronounced Wert-a-lee), to get his Army discharge (TIME, Feb. 7). They never did get rolling. War workers with good wages were apathetic; the party "ins" were soft. Groused one Democratic campaigner: "The only good Democrat is a hungry Democrat...
Sleepy, little W. D. Jones of Van Wert, Ohio drifted through the room passing out printed tracts (Use Your Bible to Battle the Bottle; 1944 Two Resolutions-Will Keep Sweet and I Will Not Drink Alcohol...
Eine Brosche die beinah zwei Mark an Wert...
George W. Rothschild '39, of Chicago; Ernest J. Sargeant '40, of Spokane, Washington; Helmut W. Schumann '41, of Dusseldorf, Germany; Reinhold S. Schumann '41, of Dusseldorf, Germany; Theodore L. Sondak '40, of Gary, Indiana; Philip E. Shick '39, of Van Wert, Ohio; John K. Shinn Jr. '40, of Coral Gables, Florida...
...Fellow feels hurt speaking this way. Thou wert right, Horace: Painters have licence in everything. But do artists? One bit called, "Odalisque", a young girl reclining on a coach looks more like Steig's stuff, but no, it's another of Borges. Utrillo's contribution had best be called "four big hips going to grub" than "Auberge". And, gentle readers, if you see the "Magnetic Cultivation of Planets," in Paul Klee's little brain child then please come to the Vagabond's Tower. Rare souls are always welcome...