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...Merrily We Roll Along." In the Senate chamber, while the organist struck up Merrily We Roll Along, the anti-Fourth Termers settled down to business with a whoop & a holler. Without debate, they rushed through resolutions demanding that the Democratic national convention: 1) seat their delegates; 2) restore the old two-thirds rule; 3) go on record for white supremacy. All three resolutions had a powerful snapper: should the Democratic national convention refuse these Texas demands, then Texas' 23 electors will not consider themselves bound to vote for the Democratic Presidential nominee...
...only six votes in New Hampshire, Tom Dewey now apparently had plucked off 25 votes without seeming effort. With a neat bit of stagecraft timing, Joe Hanley, Dewey's faithful Lieutenant Governor, turned up in North Carolina to keynote the state's Republican convention. Forthwith, delegates with whoop & holler voted unanimously to "draft" New York's cagey Governor...
...unproductive acres near Callander, Ont. He still farms the same soil (hay, oats, cattle), but only in a supervisory way. He wears neat business suits, has filled out, looks more urban than rustic. He is assertive now, aware of his responsibilities, no longer thrown off balance by publicity and whoop...
Secretary Harold L. Ickes, Solid Fuels Administrator, was taken over the coals in the periodical whoop-de-do of Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners club, which costumed him appropriately (see cut), hazed him in song and story, made him a member...
...from World War I a captain, from the Battle of Loos with the Military Cross. Says Hay: "I think I was given the M.C. for being the only survivor." His First Hundred Thousand became so popular in the U.S. in 1915 that Author Hay was later sent over to whoop it up for the Empire. ("I always get on with Americans," says Hay. "I love them...