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...analyst, casting up accounts in U. S. politics, can afford to ignore the fact that seven of the last 14 men in the White House came from Ohio. Many Washington wiseacres underestimate Bob Taft, are constantly surprised when he shows up on top in political scrimmages. What such wisemen do not realize is the depth, solidity and range of Bob Taft's political machine-shop background. As speaker of the Ohio Legislature's House, as a State Senator, as a precinct worker all the way up from doorbell-pulling, he long since graduated from one of the toughest...
Washington wisemen pondered the abrupt petering-out of this latest advertised Battle of the Century, saw ahead only victory for the Administration, barring a sudden unpredictable shift in the weather of World...
...this point, repeal of the arms embargo, and Senate adoption of the Pittman neutrality bill, seemed imminent certainties. Even the much-ignored and resentful House would probably whip through a bill in a few weeks, the wisemen believed. Congress might well adjourn before Thanksgiving...
...Pasadena Community Playhouse two years ago. After small parts in China clipper (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936) and a few minor films, he was cast as a boxer with Barton MacLane in a routine picture, first called Trial Horse, then Don't Pull Your Punches. The Warner wisemen looked at the rushes, rubbed their hands. Shelving the picture for the time being, they rushed Morris into Francis Wallace's Kid Galahad, surrounding him with such sure-fire stars as Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart. The cinemaudience, just as the Warner wiseacres figured they would, took to Morris...
...three Weirton wisemen have been dropping in on Partner Strauss for the last few months whenever they were in Manhattan. Last week the result of their conversations was dispatched to Washington as a registration statement for $50,000,000 of 4% National Steel bonds. About $40,000,000 of the proceeds will be used to pay off other bonds bearing higher coupons, the $10,000,000 balance representing new capital for expansion of the Detroit plant...