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Then he shellacked the Republican isolationists, with a passing reference to his highly successful "Martin, Barton & Fish" line from the 1940 campaign. Martin and Fish are still there, he said, and in a Republican Congress they would become, respectively, Speaker of the House and chairman of the House Rules Committee. And, said the President, he just wanted to remind the voters that, if Republicans should gain control of the Senate, his "old friend," California's 78-year-old, rock-ribbed isolationist Hiram Johnson might become chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and North Dakota's isolationist Gerald...
...years ago, Betsey Barton was having the kind of good time only American girls of her background can have. She was 16, pretty, athletic, and the daughter of a rich father, famed Advertising Man Bruce Barton. She rode horseback, danced, played tennis, toured the world. Then she broke her back in an automobile accident. In spite of all that surgery could do, her legs remained paralyzed...
This week, in And Now to Live Again (D. Appleton-Century, $1.75), Betsey Barton describes how a badly maimed person feels after the first shock of injury has passed, how such a person can make the agonizingly slow mental adjustment, sometimes more difficult than that of people deformed at birth. She hopes that her book will help teach the families of wounded men what to expect, what...
...overriding possible ridicule and probable defeat, finally began to affect the electorate: Willkie's stock rose steadily and swiftly; his final rush to victory was nipped off only when Franklin Roosevelt made a smashing series of attacks on the poor Republican Congressional record, leading off with the "Martin, Barton & Fish" speech. The margin of Willkie's defeat was much narrower than is even now generally realized...
...Division: Major General Raymond O. Barton, 54, stocky, genial West Pointer, former professor of military science at Georgetown, rated a crack tactician...