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...last six words dumped a new problem into Franklin Roosevelt's lap. After five damp days away from the telephone on the yacht Potomac, the President had worked three days in the White House, then had traveled to Hyde Park House for a four-day weekend. There, the day before Lord Lothian returned, he had told the press that the question of advancing credits to Britain had not yet been considered by the Government...
...about their love life, some are moody about lack of cash. But whatever their problems, they are usually unabashed in discussing them, which gives the Good Will Hour, in which they participate, a fine confessional flavor. All they get for reciting their troubles is the advice of a small, damp-eyed, foxy-looking gentleman, sharp in manner and dress, who is the current top in aerial soul searchers...
...whom I signed up were mostly laborers from . . . the slum district north of town, and transient workers following up the potato and beet harvest, the damp earth still caked on their overalls and arms. All day long they straggled into the basement of the courthouse, their suspicion, disgruntlement and sometimes defiance thinly veiled by meticulous courtesy, cooperativeness and attitude of resignation. It seems to me that Uncle Sam is going to have one grand headache keeping tabs on these transient workers. Many of them were stumped when asked to give their address or the name of a person who would...
Morris of Nebraska: "We were alone in his private office . . . before either convention had been held. . . . His face was damp with perspiration that comes from deep thought. ... He said ... 'I have been here seven years. I believe I am entitled to a rest.' I looked upon that benign face . . . and I said: 'Mr. President, you are a soldier ... in command of an unselfish army . . . that believes in happiness for the human race . . . that wants to strike the shackles from human limbs, and make all men happy and free. We cannot give up in the middle of this...
...Diary' mouthpiece of its publisher, Britain's Aircraft Production Minister, sounded a note of self-pity: "As surely as the calendar itself, asthma marches on its appointed course. Better than the barometer, asthma foretells the end of sunshiny days and the onset of fog and mist and damp. An example of what I mean is Lord Beaverbrook. Until a few days ago, he was still a free man. Today asthma has laid its harsh hand as firmly on him as a gaoler receiving an old prisoner back after a brief release...