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...Philadelphia turned out to line the streets. The Rooseveltian teeth gleamed in a smile for all. Down Broad Street rolled the motorcade, carrying such big shots as bald-headed William Bullitt, resplendent Anthony Biddle, rugged Boss Jack Kelly. In narrow Walnut Street the parade passed under a gigantic banner which announced: "Willkie-The Hope Of Our Country...
That evening, in the clear California night, 70,000 people crushed into the Los Angeles Coliseum, watched a Flag Day parachute bomb shoot up, heard The Star-Spangled Banner, watched the flag raised, chanted the pledge of allegiance to the flag, bowed heads in prayer, roared approval as grizzled G. O. P. Oldtimer Joseph Scott introduced "the next President of the United States...
...sober discussion. Last week Author Christopher Morley's blonde daughter Louise (Bryn Mawr) started the ball rolling by introducing Mrs. Roosevelt at the I. S. S. conference. Up dashed an ink-black African and a swarthy Brazilian, presented Mrs. Roosevelt with a striped bedspread, a Brazilian student banner...
...liberal, progressive paper, the Post-Dispatch approved most New Deal reforms, found few national causes for crusades until last spring. Then Editor Coghlan began to suspect that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to get the U. S. into war. The Post-Dispatch leaped on the barricades, waved an isolationist banner, launched a crusade...
...German conquerors could not reach it. Slapping down a blockade that severed the Empire from France, politically and economically, Great Britain sat down to wait for pressure to produce results. Last week they came in a rush as colony after colony forsook the Vichy Government for the defiant banner of General Charles de Gaulle, self-appointed leader of "free Frenchmen...