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...that in a time of rising prices, of inflating values, you really have to be very dumb indeed to fail to make money . . . Each man took care of himself, but the sum total of all this self-reliance was that the devil not only took the hindmost but the foremost and those in between...
Political bossism had also flourished in those devil-take-the-hindmost eras. Clevelanders, always politically alert, had always fought it off eventually. Now the average Clevelander was beginning to feel that there was no domination. Even the most inveterate civic-luncheon addicts could offer no guess as to which of a dozen men was most influential in his town's affairs. The man in Cleveland's streets did not even know who was the town's richest man. It did not seem to matter. The composite Clevelander was beginning, to get the idea that...
Smooth Going. In the U.S., the middle-of-the-road press reaction was almost uniformly favorable. Even the isolationist New York Daily News, which would prefer a free atomic armament race, and devil take the hindmost, said that the Baruch plan was best, if there had to be a plan. The Daily Worker in New York and the Daily Worker in London both denounced it. The reactions of these Communist papers, however, was less important than that of Communist Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet delegate. Pressed for comment on Baruch's proposals, Mr. Gromyko said: "So far matters are going...
Item: Natives of Greenwich, Conn., threatened with eviction on behalf of UNO, huddled morosely. On Bikini Atoll, threatened with eviction because of atomic experiments, natives also huddled. The Devil, in either case, might take the hindmost...
...alltime dollar peak of $63 billion. In civilian politics there was room to swing many a cat. Strikes, political revolts, administrative squabbles, and all the luxurious bickerings of individuals testified to the lack of war pressure. In fact, war tensions seemed only to have increased the devil-take-the-hindmost attitude. Advertising space was so spangled with waving "E" pennants that it looked like a crowd coming away from a football game...