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...appointment by reading the news in the paper was the nation's foremost Republican, Wendell Willkie. Among those who thought the appointment a bad one was the Herald Tribune. When Bud Kelland, making his first pronouncement as a GOPundit, declared that it was every citizen's bounden duty, even in wartime, "to engage vigorously in politics," the Herald Tribune let out a growl and jumped...
This neat bit of doggerel by Jack Tarver (Macon Telegraph) passed from mouth to mouth in Georgia last week. But to no avail: Governor Gene Talmadge, who has taken his bounden oath to drive all foreigners* out of the Cracker State, won his first victory and expelled a "foreigner," Iowa-born Walter Cocking, dean of the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Talmadge charge: that Cocking dared to hope that white and Negro teachers might study together at a graduate school (still in the idea stage) proposed near Athens (Ga.). Ten of the State's 15 regents...
...this I believe to be my bounden duty in helping to stop all warfare and help to promote peace on earth and goodwill to all men in order to help build the Kingdom of God on earth...
...which are in Fearing's blood as well as in his style, can bear repetition. As long, at least, as Tom, Dick & Harry are free to guess that human life, in their quarter of the planet, is far less decent than it has the inalienable right, and the bounden obligation, to be. Fearing's book, in spite of its often bombastic bitterness, can give to readers some feeling of that right, and sense of that obligation...
...maximum number of children it could transport by then was 15,000 to the U. S., 15,000 to Canada. Members of Parliament urged the U. S. to send its ships and Navy to help. Cried overwrought Major Albert Braithwaite, M. P.: "I say to them it is their bounden duty to send us ships and boats to take our women and children across to their country...