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...career and one unworthy of a wartime Prime Minister. For the rest of the afternoon and far into the evening he sat and listened to critics who, beginning with Labor Leader Attlee and ending with insurgent Conservative Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery, became more & more insistent that he resign. Louder grew the applause with each new attack on the Government. But the greatest ovation of the day went to long-dead Oliver Cromwell, with whose angry words to the Long Parliament of 1640-53 Insurgent Amery closed his speech...
...Since the death of Rudyard Kipling, the British Empire has found no louder rooter than little Max Aitken, the pulse-taking Express's Canadian-born publisher. The onetime bottle-washer came out with a long personal editorial upholding among other things the aristocratic principle ("an aristocracy of political heritage under the influence of a democratic vote"). But even Publisher Max had "no interest in rescuing Poland and Czecho-Slovakia from the gutter," was for the war only because the Empire...
...within the White House walls a model political organization of which he is the model boss. The White House Correspondents' Association, set up to control the personnel of press conferences, has become under the Boss's rule a powerful dining-out group, whose banquets are often louder & funnier than the Gridiron Club...
...House, where the national acoustics are not so good and the shouts are even louder, Representative Dewey Short of Missouri cried that his Ozark constituents would tell the Census takers "It is none of their damned business...
...grandstand they flashed: Austin Taylor's Whichcee in front, Seabiscuit half a length behind. Rounding into the backstretch, the old trouper kept up with Whichcee's swift pace. Down the long stretch, silhouetted against the purple Sierra Madres, the Biscuit seemed glued to Whichcee's tail. Louder & louder the crowd roared as they seesawed coming into the homestretch-Seabiscuit nosing in front, then falling back, then in front again. Approaching the grandstands, Red Pollard flipped his whip and the Biscuit, in as dramatic a finish as has ever been seen, streaked down the stretch to immortality...