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Everybody tittered when the Sitwell counsel declared that "the plaintiffs would be the last persons to deny they are not of the same type as poets who dare not say Boo to a goose. . . ." They tittered louder as they heard...
...first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose...
...bill was halfway through Congress. In the Senate the victory vote margin might be greater. Of 96 votes, 33 was the maximum hope of the isolationists; 25 was more likely; 20 and less was possible. But the talk would be longer, louder, and off a bigger sounding board. This week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would conclude hearings, with Wendell Willkie, just back from England, as a final witness; would file a report. Next week debate in the Senate would begin. It was still a probability that the bill would be signed by the President by March...
Fearing went to New York from his home town of Chicago in 1924-a time when life in the U. S. metropolis was ripe for the mirroring his style could give it. Boom-time big talk was growing louder and more insistent; while an implacable depression was creeping into the consciousness of ordinary citizens. Such a howling opposition between appearance and reality was poison for Fearing's equanimity, but meat for his pen. He became one of Bohemia's most egregious bottle-men (figuring in at least three now half' forgotten novels), and developed a gin-clear...
Crossed Lines. Ideally the rearmament program should be progressing in three neat parallel lines of administration, management, labor. But last week the lines were wavering, crossing, occasionally colliding head on. Congressmen raised longer and louder cries for legislation outlawing strikes in defense industries. The President himself had said: "The nation expects our defense industries to continue operation without interruption by strikes or lockouts." Among the crossed-up lines last week...