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Harry & Tom. In 1934 Boss Tom Pendergast, the corrupt Kansas City politico, was looking for a respectable name to sweeten up the noisome Pendergast ticket. Harry Truman, a likable plodder, had lived a clean life: he did not smoke, and did not like his womenfolk to smoke; he was a high Mason; he had married the girl he went to Sunday School with; he had been a World War I hero (an artillery captain, he saved his panicky battery from a German trap in the St. Mihiel fighting). He was a farm boy become county judge, with friends...
...Colgate University, a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, a New York City councilman. He has also led several Harlem picketlines, and edits an aggressive tabloid, The People's Voice. Handsome in a gates-ajar collar, Powell makes a hell-raising speech, likes to kiss the womenfolk in the congregation afterward. His secretary says proudly: "All the women love...
Most of the feeling against the G.I.S is from our own men. The womenfolk think them most friendly, charming, generous and cheerful. The menfolk are jealous. Why? Because the girls like to be friends with the Yanks and, I suppose, naturally our soldiers feel mad because they don't get a chance with the girls...
...Take a measure such as the anti-lynching bill. How many Senators who have lived in the midst of an ungovernable, lustful crowd, and had their womenfolk outraged, would sit down and say, 'Let the law take its course'? Let the law take its course? No. . . . There is no lynching in my section of the country. We would lynch some white people if they would go down there [laughter]-and I think I would join in the lynching-but so far as the Negro is concerned, there are no lynchings...
...Undependables. In Fort Scott, Kans., Farmer John Hall, who had heard that music made cows generous, installed a radio in his barn-to make his womenfolk want to help with the milking. The experiment failed...