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...when I'm sitting without anything to read waiting for a train in a depot, I torment myself with the poet's dictum that to make a house a home, livin' is what it takes a heap...
...This dictum, handed down by the Corporation, will from now on form the basis of the Athletic Committee's policy according to a statement from Athletic Director William J. Bingham...
...fond of such pronunciamentos as: "The very first premise for writing good radio should be actually having something to say that hasn't been said before quite in the manner in which you say it." Unfortunately Arch Oboler has never managed to live up to his own dictum. His early shriek-and-shudder work smacked of the pulps he had lately abandoned, and his latter-day effusions never lose their soapy flavor even when social significance is being dragged in by the ears...
President Roosevelt had the power (by Act of Congress) to enforce Henry Stimson's dictum. Last week the President put on his velvet gloves, said he did not expect to have to use the power. This week the airline operators fell into line, agreed to turn over to the military services all the recently delivered engines that they could spare, further promised to relinquish $7,500,000 worth of equipment on order...
When the editorial referred to "a new fashion called the democratic process." Professor Taylor recalled the dictum of former French premier Laval that "Democracy is dead the world over." He hoped that the isolationists would face the decision of the majority of Americans in the spirit of democracy. He declared that the "extreme isolation argument" had been fully heard in Congress, on the radio, and in the press...