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...regret that he could not speak in Connecticut for Candidate Cross, in Illinois for Candidate Horner. Then when Smith shouted in oldtime style, "Now we'll go after them," the cheering, laughing crowd knew what to expect. They got it. Out of four years of bitterness came raucous, fist-smashing denunciations of bigotry and Ku-Kluxery, a long tirade against that almost forgotten woman Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, plenty of "What happened? . . . Let's take a look. . . . Let us go back. . . ." An Al Smith occasion and an Al Smith speech in less than his most thoughtful vein...
...from Manchukuo's capital fortnight ago, bedight in brand new robes of Chinese silk (TIME, Oct. 24). Hours before his train was due in Tokyo Japanese schoolmarms excused little boys and girls from classes, washed the children's hands, stuck a clean Japanese flag into each chubby fist and let the moppets off in droves to shriek "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...
...uniformly a depressing blue. Seldom has any modern painter so eloquently depicted his subjects with such an economy of line. Every delineation is expressive, every curve is significant. There is something stark, some terrible frozen fear in every face. Shahn's creations seem to be cowering under some upraised fist...
...before, spectators had fist-fought players, managers and umpires had argued for two hours over a doubtful catch by the Millers' center fielder, Harry Rice. which, had it been allowed, might have won the game for Minneapolis and cost Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the Bears and the New York Yankees, his second World Series of the year...
...United States loudly professes to champion righteousness and humanity, but what can you think when you review its policy toward Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua and other Latin American nations? Nowhere in the society of nations do we find the pacific spirit which we call Japanese 'kultur.' We must shake our fist in their faces...