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...White banners!", shows him that moving on to other achievements, turning the other cheek, is more heroic than fighting. Although few readers are likely to accept her counsel unequivocally, it certainly works out well in Paul's case. He writes a life of Spenser that wins him academic acclaim, later invents a better refrigerator that makes his fortune...
...industrial Barcelona, the proletarian "Pittsburgh of Spain" and the country's only modern metropolis, last week took for its Region of Catalonia the autonomous rank of a semi-collectivist State by proclamation, acclaim and much frenzied carousing and shooting in the streets. The great city's exultant Communists. Anarchists and Socialists still were friendly to Spain's Madrid regime in theory but in practice they had carried Catalonia off by herself on the political loose. Zealots plastered up everywhere manifestoes reading PRIVATE PROPERTY IS CONFISCATED AND COLLECTIVIZED! This meant that doors of wealthy and middle class homes...
...them to adorn the Rooseveltian triumph; 200,000 tickets had been printed; Philadelphians by the thousand had been enlisted at booths where the tickets were distributed free; Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City had delivered legions of his well-drilled yeomanry. The fresh army of enthusiasts rose and roared acclaim as Franklin Roosevelt marched out upon the platform on the arm of Son James. Standing at the rostrum he and John Nance Garner clasped hands and raised them aloft-the Democratic ticket...
...Presidential nomination before 1940, would be the tail to their 1936 kite only if the Convention drafted him by acclamation. John Hamilton thought that could be done and long after everyone else went to bed that night he and his lieutenants were buzzing around lining up the necessary acclaim. By about 2:30 a. m. they thought they had things fixed. By that time Senator Vandenberg had cut off his telephone. No one thought to go bang on his door with the glad tidings. They could wait until morning. Meantime, weary Mr. Vandenberg had sent a message to John Hamilton...
...might be for their man. Their reward was a 74-to-1 vote for Knox at the Pennsylvania delegation's morning caucus. That made the Vandenberg acclamation impossible. The rest was easy. At the Convention, Governor Bridges nominated Colonel Knox, Chairman Snell read the Vandenberg message, and the acclaim fixed for the latter went to the former...