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...first, because the stout old bantam cock couldn't reach the man-size micro phone, his gravelly voice grated away in a scratchy whisper for nearly a minute, to great choruses of boos and shouts of "louder!" from Mayor Kelly's men. Then the P. A. operator lowered the microphone, and Glass's hoarse whisper filled the stadium: ". . . An incomparable Democrat ... a man on whose word every human being can always rely. . . . Thomas Jefferson. . . . Since I have been sitting on this platform I have had two anonymous communications objecting to Jim Farley because he is a Catholic...
...roar of the big guns is muffled at first, gradually grows louder in Sometown. A $5 bill will feed a Belgian baby for a month. It is not Sometown's fight. But in a rathskeller, the song Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier doesn't sound right either. Mr. Averill didn't raise his boy to be a soldier, but when Walter joins the Lafayette Escadrille, somehow Mr. Averill and Sometown are proud of him. Even the Bensinger girl, whose father teaches at the local college and wants his native Germany...
...Oilman Shea knew he was moving into a trouble spot. Firecrackers had exploded under North American for nearly two years, and one of the new man's presumptive duties was to stop the noise. But the explosions did not even taper off. Last week they threatened to grow louder...
...sooner was the sun up than bells began to jangle louder than ever in the Free Press city room. Baffled again was Editor Martin until he managed to calm one reader down, demanded: "What on earth is wrong now?" Said his caller: "Hold that picture of Roosevelt up to the light." Editor Martin did. The swastika which appeared on the Roosevelt face showed through from an anti-Nazi cartoon on the reverse side of the page...
...stirring Mexican national anthem (less favored under the NEW Revolution than the Communist Internationale). Sadly Juan Andreu Almazán said: "I am moved to see the action of the people. How I would like to help them." Maybe he will one day. Sunday's shootings may have louder echoes when the Government publishes its election returns...