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...American elections differ from our own; [Americans] have more of the gift for the snappy phrase. . . . Thus we have John L. Lewis describing Sidney Hillman . . . as 'a Russian pants-maker who is trying to take over the rule of the nation.' Who can think of a single good quip by Sir Robert Borden or Mr. Bennett or Mr. King? . . . Who can equal Mr. Ickes' phrase about the youthful Mr. Dewey 'throwing his diapers into the ring,' or his description of Wendell Willkie as 'the barefoot boy from Wall Street...
Champion of the Small. Mackenzie King would like to go down in history as the interpreter of the U.S. to Britain. He has been the most North American minded of Canadian Prime Ministers. He is the friend of Roosevelt and Churchill, has dared to differ with both of them...
...America are not so unique in character as to demand separate philosophies or special techniques of analysis or synthesis. They are like products of the industrial revolutions; all are new and all are without guidance. The chaos of Hamburg and the ravages inflicted on that city by war differ in degree and not in kind from the chaos of ravaged London ; one can die as miserably in the slums of Chicago as in the slums of Istanbul; and the assembly lines which in Detroit made automata of populations are ' yet first cousins to the factories which blacken...
...special god of stem rust, Robigo. But Elvin Stakman was one of the first to plumb the secrets of plant fungi growth. He discovered that every fungus contains a number of parasitic strains, and that a single fungus cell may produce thousands of varieties which look alike but differ in their plant tastes...
ABSIE is no teapot station. It has 12 medium-wave transmitters, rooms full of U.S.-built technical equipment, modern studios, offices, and a staff of 90 Americans, stuffed into a vast warehouse in a corner of London. Its output will not differ greatly from BBC's-primarily news and its interpretation, feature talks, advice for the European underground, popular and straight music-but it will present the U.S. viewpoint, in six languages...