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Curly-haired Pat Boland hardly ever talked in the House, worked quietly in the halls and cloakrooms which are the whip's domain. Fervent Bob Ramspeck has made many impassioned speeches for his favorite causes. But he also knows the slick-floored, smoky, gossip-filled cloakrooms as few Congressmen...
With a firm economic basis for postwar collaboration, the Administration hopes to build a broader system of political and military cooperation. Following fervent Vice President Henry Wallace's declaration that the peace must be a "people's peace," Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles last week spoke for the Administration to the U.S. and other people. Said Sumner Welles: "This is in very truth a people's war . . . [and] it must assure the sovereign equality of peoples throughout the world. . . . The age of imperialism is ended...
Native Land's fervent faults are the faults of propaganda. It fails to identify the violators of its civil liberties, save by implication and by frequent mention of big business. It ignores the flies in labor's own ointment, advocates militant unionism as the future guarantor of the people's civil rights, almost forgets the Administration's efforts on behalf of organized labor, and displays small interest in union means or ends beyond an economic security guaranteed by organized mass membership...
...George Gallup put together his polls, added a fervent "Amen." He wrote that two-thirds of all full-time employed Americans would be willing to have 10% deducted each payday to buy defense bonds or stamps; that six months before Pearl Harbor a substantial majority was willing to pay two weeks' salary to the Government in addition to all taxes; that 64% of all U.S. workers were willing to accept the Government's right to dictate to them the kind of work, number of hours worked and amount...
...warned, but the tide of defeat had turned and was now a thunderous southward surge of victory. The Emperor had even deigned to show himself, astride his white horse, to receive the banzais of his subjects. In the parks of Tokyo, the people thrilled to brass bands blaring the fervent strains of Kimigayo...