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Wiseacres began to parse the President's phrases, came out with a translation: the President was going to keep hands off the autumn elections-except in the case of the onetime isolationists. No matter how you parsed that, that meant the Republicans...
Clausewitz for Autumn. His favorite author, ironically, is the great German military critic, Karl von Clausewitz. One passage which he quotes with especially affectionate comment might well have been his text last week, as he reviewed the lessons of Autumn 1941 before doing his home work for the final exams in Summer...
...York City's hardy perennial, Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, appeared before the New York Court of Appeals to argue against a lower-court decision affecting his powers. In last autumn's heated mayoralty campaign, the Mayor had whoppingly intimated that in one of its decisions the State Court of Appeals had been "fixed." So curious onlookers last week expected to see the sparks fly. But protean Mr. LaGuardia was on his rare best behavior...
...Fish (from Franklin Roosevelt's district) met Trooper Hill 25 years ago on the battlefields of France. They have been thick ever since. One day last autumn a grand jury, investigating the activities of Nazi agents in the U.S., sent its agents to the Washington headquarters of an anti-British organization, the Islands For War Debts Committee, to seize eight bags of franked Congressional mail containing speeches by isolationist members of Congress. They found that George Hill had sent a House truck for the mail before they got there, had whisked it away to Ham Fish's storeroom...
Though network religious programs (for which radio time is given free) are much better than most local religious broadcasts, the Chicago survey has two criticisms of them also: 1) local stations often cancel the free time when they can get paying customers ("Throughout the autumn of 1941 ... no NBC station in the Chicago area carried Dr. Fosdick-he was crowded off the air in favor of professional Sunday football"); 2) "too many" of the network programs come from Manhattan...