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...substance and solemn sedateness." But that, he trusts, will not happen in 1940, or even in 1944. Abandoning all hope of a na tional victory in 1940, the G. O. P. should concentrate on replenishing its treasury, rebuilding its shattered local organizations, electing Congressmen enough to "decrease the defeatist psychology of the party," picking and electing Governors "eminent in commerce or finance, for the reason that in 1948 the Republicans are likely to need a Presidential candidate of that description...
Having been told just what they wanted to hear, the Bond Club members were delighted. Cracked Financial Editor Carleton A. Shively of the New York Sun: "If it does nothing else, the summary of the case may help to eliminate the defeatist feeling so common nowadays in financial circles...
...America, but rather I favor its being conducted as in England where the merit system has a more independent and more solid footing. This situation can be changed only by recognizing it. The matter is not hopeless. The main problem is that the people be gotten out of a defeatist attitude...
...Memoirs of eleven famed Edwardian authors on whom Author Ford, wearing his gently smiling expression, has been sharpening his anecdotal claws these many years. On H. G. Wells he uses his teeth as well, because, charges Ford, Wells is the man who has trained the world into a defeatist resignation to the horrors of the Machine...
...pointed at 20 or more loyal Democratic Senators, at liberals such as Norris, Wheeler, Nye, at many pro-Roosevelt newspapers which now oppose the Court proposal. Senator Edward R. Burke of Nebraska, leader of the pro-Court wing among Senate Democrats, declared: "If the President thinks that . . . those 'defeatist lawyers'.. . are the only ones ... he is sadly mistaken. The most bitter opposition to the plan is from people who wholeheartedly supported the President last November...