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...only after the Spanish were defeated and Cuba was free that the conscience of many Americans was disturbed by the unexpected annexation of the Philippines. The Anti-Imperialist League, founded in Boston by such well-known men as Grover Cleveland and Andrew Carnegie, attracted 500,000 protesting members, as U.S. troops found themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to put down Philippine Guerrilla Leader Emilio Aguinaldo's liberation movement. "The Administration seeks to extinguish the spirit of 1776 in those islands," declared the league's 1899 platform. "We demand the immediate cessation of this war against liberty...
...this week-a fact that could not really displease the Senators, who have lost three straight openers with Johnson and Humphrey on the hill. For their home opener, the luckier California Angels acquired the services of Governor Ronald Reagan, a pitcher with experience: he once played the part of Grover Cleveland Alexander in a movie called The Winning Team...
...story is unending and that come what may, man will prevail. The thought is unarguable, but its demonstration leaves the reader with characters who are merely symbols and a story that is an abstraction. After visiting Coaltown, readers may want to hop a fast freight to Grover's Corners, the setting of Our Town, whose scale was smaller but whose philosophy seemed almost as tangible as its strawberry sodas. Thornton Wilder remains engaging, thoughtful, a man to meet. Yet in this book, one longs for more substance, more authentic heart, more
Perhaps the classic case of Harry's single-mindedness is recounted by retired TIME Vice President Allen Grover: "World War II had just begun. Staffers scurried back from afar. I was in early and was summoned at once to the boss's office. He was writing a memo on something about TIME's National Affairs section and stunned me by ignoring the war completely. When I tried to bring it up, he gave me some chore and dismissed me. Later that day I got one of his screeds on copy paper saying, 'Al, see me Friday...
...While bowing to the memory of Grover Cleveland Alexander as the greatest baseball pitcher of all time, may I respectfully disagree with Mrs. Alexander's letter...