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Saved at Lunch. By 1940, as war raged in Europe, La Follette's star was waning. Like his father, he was an isolationist, and when he inveighed against lend-lease and the neutrality act, he lost votes. Franklin Roosevelt saved him from defeat in the 1940 senatorial campaign. In 1934 Roosevelt publicly called him "old friend," and then invited him to a well-publicized White House luncheon as a campaign boost. After Pearl Harbor, Young Bob supported the bipartisan foreign policy, but late in the war he put on his old isolationist hat again. The United Nations, he said...
...fondly expected to touch off a social renaissance and lend a new warmth to the affairs of the presidency...
...outside of the whirlybirds like packages on a gypsy caravan. From Britain, herself heavily stricken (300 dead), came boats, planes, and engineering supplies as well. In one day the R.A.F. flew in some 50,000 sandbags. U.S. motorized columns raced across Germany's Autobahnen into The Netherlands to lend a hand, while fleets of Flying Boxcars roared in laden with life rafts, serums, and other vital supplies. The Netherlands War Ministry promised each G.I. the same daily bonus (26? and a package of cigarettes) that the Dutch soldiers got for flood relief work, but the offer was turned down...
...tour of the flooded areas. At one point her car got stuck in the mud. "Come on," called the Queen, suiting the action to the word, "let's get out and push." Even 72-year-old Princess Wilhelmina took to the road for two days to lend what help she could...
...Lend-Geese Plan. Stahmann is selling eggs and goslings to farmers all over the valley, encouraging them to start goose farms of their own. Since he has not enough cotton acreage to "run" all the geese he can slaughter, Stahmann has set up another plan. He sells five-week-old geese to other farmers at a low price, to use as hoe hands in their own cotton patches. After the geese have fattened for twelve weeks he buys them back at around the original price, for slaughter. As a result of all this goose-swapping, the farmers get free weeding...