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...young woman she was a painter and magazine illustrator, turned to social work and New York politics after her husband's death in 1916, was a longtime friend of Eleanor Roosevelt. In Congress she was an all-out New Dealer and anti-war crusader, but voted aye on the declaration of war after Pearl Harbor...
Have we the ships? Aye, there's the rub. Well, we had ships to take 950,000 men to the Middle East, ships to capture Madagascar, ships to take huge convoys to India, ships to transport supplies to Russia, ships to save an army from Dunkirk, ships to keep this nation the best fed in Europe. Ships do not lie idle. They must be employed according to a rigid rule of priority. Suppose the Second Front became Number 1 priority. Perhaps then the greatest seafaring nation the world has ever seen would be unable to find the ships...
Tommy Hart insists that his officers keep close to the men in the ranks, share their troubles, watch their morale. He is liberal with praise for work well done, worries a good deal about naval etiquette. An "O.K., sir" instead of an "Aye. Aye, sir" turns him purple with rage. But when anyone complains about seeing sailors loaded to the gunnels staggering around Manila, he steps stoutly to their defense. When seamen, after weeks at sea, roll ashore, he feels they sometimes have a right to "make a rough liberty." Anyhow, he adds complacently, only about 100 are ever reported...
...many men every whit as humane as Mr. Roosevelt, that the underlying purpose was to effect a change in the direction of American political development." Author Johnson goes on to see whether the New Deal is integrated with the natural development of the U.S. tradition. His conclusion: a resounding aye, regardless of Roosevelt's faults...
...roll call began; 45 minutes of grinding suspense as the clerk growled out the 432 names, listened for an answer, repeated the vote. The jammed galleries seemed hung over the rails. The little tally meter of Tally Clerk Hans Jorgensen registered 204 aye votes, 201 nay votes. (Twenty-seven were not voting.) Hubbub boiled about the rostrum...