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...Wheaton College (where he met his wife), then accepted a pastorate in Western Springs, Ill. But a pastor's life seemed an unexciting routine of baptisms, marriages, fund-raisings and funerals. Billy had an itch for new places and new faces; the vineyard he needed was a national hookup, not a village church...
...bade an emotional farewell to politics. Last week, at Dwight Eisenhower's personal request, he stepped back into public life to speak out against "misrepresentations" about the G.O.P. with which "the American people have been deluged" in the last 20 years. Speaking over a national radio & television hookup, Elder Statesman Hoover aimed his speech at the "40 million voters who have come of age since there was a Republican administration in Washington...
...False Prophets." Back in Denver, Ike abandoned purely internal Republican politics, spoke to the nation over a coast-to-coast television hookup on 1952's most important issue: foreign policy. "I occupy my present position in this political race," said he, "primarily because I believe that peace may well be at stake." He described the force of aggressive Communism, which with "America as its final and chief target" had steadily moved closer "to the sources of supply on which our existence depends." Earnestly he denounced "those who assert that America can live solely within its own borders . . . those...
Still smarting that night, Inland Steel's President Clarence B. Randall spoke for the seized companies over another radio and TV hookup. He hit back as hard as he had been hit. He disputed Truman's "shocking distortion of facts" up & down the line. Cried Randall: Truman has "transgressed his oath of office ... abused the power which is temporarily his ... seized the private property of one million people without the slightest shadow of legal right . . . This evil deed, without precedent in American history, discharges a political debt to the C.I.O. . . Phil Murray now gives Harry Truman a receipt...
Since last month, Evangelist Nichols has had what he wanted: a 145-station hookup of the American Broadcasting Co. Nichols himself, speaking with a strong Texas drawl, leads the preaching in a new Sunday radio series, called Herald of Truth...