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When Welles discovered that he could hire an automobile (at $3.50 an hour), he began making side trips out into the country where, he found, the farther he got from Russia's bureau cratic capital the more freely and eagerly people talked to him. Elsewhere, in the ensuing 16 countries he visited, Welles followed the same plan: get a car and start motoring, gather your impressions tourist-style by avoiding the good hotels in the capital cities, stop wherever things look interesting and ask questions...
...During all the years I have served as chairman I had tried, in so far as possible, to give all the time and attention necessary to ... aid in the election of Demo-cratic nominees. In the state and national campaigns during all those years, I devoted all my time from early morning to late at night on behalf of the party's nominees. ... It is not easy for me to break away...
...stand against any tax "forgiveness." Majority Leader John W. McCormack, responding to Ad ministration pressure, and Tennessee's shrewd Jere Cooper, the committee's best tax brain, did the pulling and hauling. Old Muley now came out for cancellation of about half of 1942 taxes; the Demo cratic majority of his committee gave his bill a favorable report...
Angrily, sourly, in grave disunion, the Convention adjourned. And in the swift days after the grunting delegates entrained for home, the effects showed as clearly as Mr. Roosevelt could have wished. Demo cratic lame ducks Holt of West Virginia and Burke of Nebraska announced for Wendell Willkie; so did Booth Tarkington, Irvin S. Cobb; so did the Louisiana sugar planters, and all the men who bolted Roosevelt...
...time the Nature religion of the French enlightenment was strong in men like Jefferson and Madison, the Baptists and Presbyterians were settling the frontier. Bates gives a clear account of these and other sects, of the political forms that grew from their beliefs and necessities, of the Utopian demo cratic optimism shown in the Shaker communes and Brook Farm experiments of the early 19th Century. His book closes with the Civil...