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...cept in case of attack.' "It is for peace I have labored; and it is for peace I shall labor all the days of my life." But most of the speech was on domestic issues, and here the old campaigner really went to town. He was sarcastic, sly, arch, tough, ironic, intimate, confidential. He ad libbed, he laughed, rolled his head sidewise, lifted his eyes in mock horror. The audience ate it up. Newsman Ted Alford, of the anti-Roosevelt Kansas City Star, said: "He's all the Barrymores rolled into...
...Over all major networks at 8 a.m. told the men of the U. S. about to register for military service that "Today's registration ... is the keystone in the arch of national defense." Said he: "Democracy is the one form of society which guarantees to every new generation of men the right to imagine and to attempt to bring to pass a better world. Under the despotisms, the imagination of a better world and its achievement are alike forbidden. Your act today affirms not only your loyalty to your country but your will to build your future for yourselves...
Last week Dale Maple shocked arch-patriotic Harvard by resigning from the Verein Turmwächter and publicly applauding Hitler and all his works. To the Harvard Crimson's editors, who could scarcely believe their ears, he defiantly exclaimed: "Even a bad dictatorship is better than a good democracy." To educators, Dale Maple's case proved little about Harvard, much about the psychology of frustration...
...have it now. He would have to win it and in winning it some of his supporters would be his greatest liability. Roosevelt has it, and time is of the essence." The sight of Miss Thompson's skirty cartwheel "saddened," "astounded," "shocked" readers of her column in the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Wrote one reader to the editors: "Good heavens! What are you thinking about to let this occur...
...walls with jibes against cafe socialites-who returned the compliment by staying away. Nevertheless, Cafe Society made money. Its clientele was mostly 1) left-wing intellectuals, 2) jazz addicts. For Proprietor Josephson placed the joint's musical policy in the reverential hands of John Henry Hammond Jr., arch-hierophant of U. S. jazz. High Priest Hammond made Cafe Society one of the three or four spots in Manhattan where good jazz could be heard, popularized that most esoteric of forms, the ritualistic clatter-bang of boogie-woogie pianism...