Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote he: "I hope LaFollette is successful. ... In the long run he will be closer to me than Morse [Oregon's vocally liberal Senator Wayne Morse]." Then he indicated that there was more to his sudden affection for LaFollette, and to Coleman's frenzied opposition to him, than met the politically naked eye. "Coleman appears to be tied up with Stassen," wrote presidential-hopeful Taft. "I don't think LaFollette will ever get into that campaign because he disapproves of Stassen's foreign policy...
...world was not for sale. The U.S. could never, by gifts or loans or food shipments, win the nations to democracy. Yet Washington and the world last week moved measurably closer to another truth: dollars could have a natural and necessary relation to democracy. The wealth produced by U.S. enterprise could be used to foster democratic enterprise in other lands...
Last week Winston Churchill amid a five-day fete of welcome at The Hague made a proposal similar to Briand's. Said Churchill: "We hope that the Western democracies of Europe will draw together in ever closer amity and ever closer association. . . . This ... if found wise, should be pressed from many angles with the utmost perseverance. I see no reason why, under the guardianship of a world organization, there should not ultimately arise the United States of Europe, both of the East and of the West, which will unify this continent in a manner never known since the fall...
...admit opposition-only, of course, to the point where it does not manifest itself. That is democracy. . . . For 15 years Ferdinand Lop, as he took off his pants at night, envisaged taking power the next day. Every morning, as he pulled on his socks, he was no closer to holding power. You must admit that such a man with the same idea for 15 years is not normal. That is why we who are normal follow...
...Jazz (Bunk Johnson and his New Orleans Band; Victor, 8 sides). Old Bunk's trumpet leads the choir in When the Saints Go Marching In and A Closer Walk with Thee, then turns secular in Franklin Street Blues and I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate. Clarinetist George Lewis and Trombonist James Robinson step high on the parade tunes. Performance: excellent...