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Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favour and glad to do thy will. Bless our land with honourable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogancy, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there...
...there was a difference. The annual day-long parade had more zip, more color, more of a grim military note. Men gathered in hundreds to sing God Bless America, and some of them wept. From the sidewalks they shouted "To hell with Hitler." The spirit was the old spirit: "What son-of-a-bitch, or combination of sonsofbitches, thinks he can lick us?" World War II had wrought a great change. Legion membership rose 20,000 in 1939; 25,000 more in 1940; 30,000 more this year...
...Bless the Child (Bea Wain; Victor). Billie Holiday's new hard-times song, sung with the appropriate lump in the throat...
...unit might never have got started had not F. Trubee Davison persuaded his reluctant father, able Harry Davison, a Morgan partner, soon to do a classic job organizing the American Red Cross for the war. Young Davison went to Washington, got a vague "God bless you!" from Josephus Daniels, got a practical letter of encouragement from Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt. The First Yale Unit went ahead, while their fathers and friends put up the money for training (flying lessons then cost $1 a minute), bought them planes to train...
Early in My Life With Caroline Husband Colman confides his problem to his audience in one of the theater's oldest pieces of business, the aside. Discovering his wife rendezvousing with a curly-headed hacendado (Gilbert Roland), he invites his audience to see what his life with Caroline ("Bless her little heart") has been...