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...votes for Willkie and most of them were undoubtedly votes against Roosevelt. Besides a great victory Roosevelt also had the greatest vote of no confidence that any President ever received. On Franklin Roosevelt's brow rested something heavier than the laurels of political victory: on his big bland forehead lay a responsibility greater than any President's since Abraham Lincoln. Like Lincoln, he could and must quote Scripture: "A house divided against itself cannot stand...
...would protect lard's linoleic constituent, rich in vitamin F. They finally found what they wanted in gum guaiac, made from the sap of the tropical American guaiacum tree. Swift's President John Holmes said that lard treated with tiny amounts of gum guaiac was odorless, bland in flavor...
About 1937, three men began to change all that: tough Thomas E. Dewey, tweedy Kenneth F. Simpson, bland Bruce Barton. In an amateurish but effective way, all were political hot stuff. And all had a belief -in the pros' eyes almost atheistic-that the thing...
...Christian, but bland-voiced Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, occasional contributor to The Nation, gave Minister Hanner his pastoral charge. Not from the Bible but from an ancient Jewish book of moral teaching, The Ethics of the Fathers, came Rabbi Bernstein's text. This week tall, grey-templed Minister Hanner, a 34-year-old onetime agnostic who got religion by acting in amateur dramatics with the First Unitarian's Gannett Players, began the practical application of his charge. The place: Nantucket's Second Congregational Meetinghouse, built in 1808 at the height of the whaling boom and so well...
...listen. National Broadcasting Co. shares the general reverence, but last summer it began giving out "chamber music" that was different. Last week an NBC program, whose popularity had lifted it from a Sunday-afternoon to a Monday-evening spot (9 p.m. E. D. S. T.), started with a bland announcement...