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...Future. "Duty and prudence alike command . . . that the germ centers of hatred and revenge should be constantly and vigilantly curbed and treated in good time and that an adequate organization should be set up to make sure that the pestilence can be controlled at its earliest beginning. ... I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American people will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together in majesty, in justice and in peace...
...concubines came and went. . . ." He was surrounded with harlots and pimps and gondoliers and their . . . families. Shelley remarked with chill disdain that among Byron's boon companions were "wretches who seem almost to have lost the gait and physiognomy of man, and who do not scruple to avow practices which are not only not named, but I believe even conceived in England...
...slow, measured words of hope for the British. Later, in a broadcast, he had a sober, grim warning for Americans: "We must face the facts of today. . . . The danger is imminent. ... To meet it we must pledge ourselves anew to fulfill our obligations to the nation, and again avow eternal devotion to the principles of liberty and justice upon which this nation rests...
...others who could not work when the flow of auto bodies halted. In Washington John Lewis grabbed a long-distance telephone and bawled out Executive Boardman Leo Lamotte, whom Mr. Lewis blamed for the trouble. Boss Lewis was concerned because he had just had C. I. O. avow that it would religiously observe its contracts...
...sorely divided officers had spent some of the money for Elgin watches to give Messrs. Lewis, Hillman. Murray and C. I. O. Headquarters Director John Brophy as "symbols of unity.'' U. A. W. President Homer Martin, who heartily dislikes all four, had to avow the utmost esteem for them (and they for him). He also exuded esteem for his fellow officers, who half hoped that Mr. Martin would fulfill his recent threats to resign...