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Amiable, greying Phillies Manager Eddie Sawyer was not joining in. "We're not ready for it," said Sawyer. "Brooklyn should win, and we'll be in third again." Sophomore Manager Sawyer explained his prediction: "I'm not being defeatist, but I know our values. The boys have youth, ambition and sincerity for their jobs. But they are inexperienced, and we have a definite weakness in reserves...
Seven Seats. The sour-faced look, the scolding tongue and the defeatist attitude were the more bootless because some Republican gains were not at all impossible in 1950. A party which made gains in the last three off-year elections, and polled 45% of the vote in the last presidential election, was not withering away like the English Liberals. In the Senate, where the Republicans need to pick up seven seats to win control, their best prospect was in Idaho, where Governor Charles A. Robins was expected to eliminate Glen Taylor. There was an even-money chance that Governor...
Your Aug. 22 article on José Ortega y Gasset's description of the evolution of art was read with interest. [But] I am afraid you adopt too much of a defeatist attitude in your last sentence: "It looked as if modern art must be the end of the line...
Their stories were almost identical. Maine-born Mildred Elizabeth Gillars, 47, went to Europe in 1929 to study music. When war came she stayed on in Berlin, broadcasting a mixture of sirupy music and defeatist propaganda to U.S. troops. Los Angeles-born Iva Toguri d'Aquino, 32, went to Japan in 1941 "to see a sick aunt," was caught there by Pearl Harbor. Along with half a dozen English-speaking Japanese girls, she became the corporate voice which Pacific troops nicknamed Tokyo Rose. Just before war's end, she married a Portuguese newsman...
...London's Central Criminal Court. The little man who, in his self-conscious spruceness looked like a somewhat comic gangster, was Lord Haw Haw - William Joyce - the British Fascist who, during World War II, had nightly tried to sap his countrymen's will to survive by broadcasting defeatist propaganda from Germany...