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Governor of New York. He was elected governor of New York in 1918. By now he was a shrewd, blunt, humorous campaigner, with an unequaled knowledge of the state's affairs. He was also a great legislative technician with an uncanny ability to rasp out simple, pointed explanations of complicated governmental problems. He battled for slum clearance, set up children's courts, got additional millions for teachers' salaries. He wanted people to enjoy themselves-he took the ban off Sunday baseball...
Nevertheless, Nahas had persuaded five Arab states* to unite politically, culturally, economically, and to issue a blunt Pan-Arab pronouncement that "the rights of Palestine Arabs could not be violated without the risk of disturbing peace in the Arab world...
...contrast, Willkie's blunt honesty, his freedom from political entanglements, his unquestioned patriotism, his practical idealism concerning the U.S.'s inevitable participation in a One World future, make him the kind of leader we so desperately need in the next few years-in war and peace...
...this maneuvering would need some deft Washington pressure-preferably by the President. To guide him, they sent the President a long, blunt memorandum, recommending: Don't compromise an inch-fight...
Yesterday's Sandwiches. Next day, the Democrat's beefy, shaggy-haired Editor Arthur Aull, famed for his blunt and exact descriptions of local events,* gave his own precise report of the Big Day. He thought everything "moved like a marriage bell," but he kept his eye on the real news in Lamar's Truman...