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Four days after Pearl Harbor, when the bill authorizing the President to send troops overseas was up for debate, he pushed himself feebly to his feet on the Senate floor to croak: "I object." Since that day, Hi Johnson, tired, sick and sore, had spent more of his time in his office or in hospitals, dreaming of the Presidency he never won. This week, as it must to all men, Death came in the 79th year to the California dissenter, one of the great independents of U.S. politics...
...South Africa: "Large animals, while more numerous than they should be, are not an influential segment of the population. . . . None of the animals in South Africa have learned to keep quiet. Lions roar, monkeys chatter and even crickets squeak louder than is reasonable. The trees contain doves which croak and gurgle constantly...
...already finished the first draft of his war message. In the second-floor red-room study, he talked to the Cabinet, then brought in the Congressional leaders -among them, on his first visit to the White House in many a moon, aging, croak-voiced Senator Hiram Johnson of California, oldest of the Isolationists. The President was deadly serious. There was no smile. The lines in his face were deeper...
...Willkie have been completely "unfunny" to the reader and others to whom I have talked. I know that what I say makes small difference to you, but your "sophisticated-smart" reports on Willkie have been "hitting below the belt." You seem to believe that amateurs in politics whose voices "croak" and "scratch" are objects to be ridiculed. Your smears, very subtly put, on Willkie's every action fall flat; and your reports concerning lack of enthusiasm and cynicism at his Chicago appearance are not true...
...this point the customary bow of deference to Harvard indifference is due and executed. Lack of a cheering section would constitute a serious handicap to the best of cheer leaders. To compare the feeble croak of a Harvard undergraduate to the engulfing roar of an Army cadet is to set a double forte trumpet against a pianissimo harp. Still, even the harps of Harvard can make a creditable racket if aroused. The Michigan game proved that, and one is led to the conclusion that the Crimson cheer leaders could get more from the instruments with which they have to work...