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...Banker Snyder was telling a corrupted version of the old legend of King Canute (995-1035) who, to rebuke the flattery of his courtiers, showed them that the advancing tide paid no heed to his commands...
...Courier's first lady says she keeps her highly profitable daily out of debt by running it "the way a housewife operates a home." Even labor unions are apt to heed when she says "Now listen, boys. I'll take care of you as long as you do what I think is right...
Within 18 weeks last summer at the U.S. Naval Training Center at Miami, the Chinese had passed a battery of formidable examinations in gunnery and naval techniques, were equipped to shout, or to heed, such salty orders as "right standard rudder," or "steady...
...week on ships in Pearl Harbor; on Nov. 29 he was asked for Pearl Harbor reports "even when there are no movements." Both messages were decoded well in advance of the attack. General Miles conceded that they gave "added significance to the first message." But Intelligence paid no particular heed, said nothing about them to Lieut. General Walter C. Short, the Army commander in Hawaii...
This is a picture with a moral. In giving the story of Wilson's times, Zanuck has tried to give an indirect forecast of America's future. From Wilson's tragic failure he has drawn a powerful object lesson that America would do well to heed. To say that this picture has so far changed all American political thinking would not be true; but it cannot be denied that it has been a major factor in erasing isolationism of the millions...