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...corner, Willkie's handlers wept (some of them crocodile tears) or swore. But the bearlike man from Indiana wouldn't admit he was licked. Even veteran newshawks begged him to cut down on his extraordinarily grueling speaking schedule. Smiling, he upped the pace, talked more, louder, longer. More important, he began to say things that...
...national fever rose last week. Up zoomed the sales of political buttons. Movie theatres rocked to applause for newsreel shots of the candidates. Everywhere headquarters bloomed with bunting, boomed with antlike activity. Bettors bet more; arguments got louder; radio listeners found less swing and more oratory. The 1940 campaign was really...
...Christian, Toyohiko Kagawa, was released from the prison to which he was hustled last month. Christian Kagawa said he would spend the rest of his life tending tuberculous Japanese on pine-studded, golden-beached Toyoshima, one of the "dream islands" of Japan's Inland Sea. Louder than his words was the obvious inference that, at the behest of Japan's New Order in East Asia, he had abandoned militant Christianity for politically innocuous social service...
...full cry under a huge cross set up in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Some of the things the rabble-rouser spouted as "Catholic" doctrine burned Harry up. "I was in Jesuit schools twelve years," he growled, "and I never heard stuff like that." He began to growl louder. The speaker kicked at him. That was a mistake. Two-hundred-and-twenty-five-pound Harry Dalton caught the speaker's foot, yanked him from the stand. Then Harry Dalton took his place, delivered a 20-minute opinion on the folly of preaching hate...
...where Professor Elliott feels confident of unity, many envisage the need for drastic governmental control of the industrial power-group. On one premise, however, Professor Elliott will find whole-hearted accord: "The best defense of a democracy lies in a bringing home to its citizens, through deeds that speak louder than words, the reality of the democratic community in the making of a happy and free life...