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...takes the power, it will have to take the responsibility. It will have to show a willingness, not hitherto apparent, to deal in world problems firmly and sensibly. And in doing so, it must also, as Britain has done, accept the odium of being top dog in the world. In that event, the U. S. can no longer afford to have its external policies subject to the whims of internal politics. It must think in world terms and regardless of quarrels about what party should be in power at home, it must acquire the tradition of carrying on a strong...
...must prepare not only for the summer but for the winter, not only for 1941 but for 1942, when the war will, I trust, take a different form from the defensive in which it has hitherto been bound...
...Most interesting new issue to speculative pockets was 325,000 common shares of Philco Corp., No. 1 maker of radio sets, hitherto closely and privately owned. Philco's spectacular career had whetted Wall Street appetites for years. Once a small maker of storage batteries, Philco dived boldly into the turbulent radio set business in 1928, went $7,000,000 into debt, emerged at the top of the manufacturing heap, ahead of RCA (on whose patents Philco depended). Hit by strikes in 1937 and 1938, it came back last year, for the year ended last March...
...Commissar's Desperate Desmonds. Right off the bat a smoke bomb goes off in the studio, creates such an uproar that one of the Commissar's boys is able to make off with the Chicago Police Department plans for combating sabotage of American Defense preparations hitherto in the keeping of Lieut. Mulaney...
...Halop's Dead End manners, Flashman and his stooges steal Tom's food, almost break his back, torture him by roasting over an open fire. Tom spurs his friends to a revolt against Flashman, culminating in a nose-busting brawl between the two leaders bloodier than anything hitherto exhibited in the juvenile cinema...