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Detective Lippmann's analysis of Franklin Roosevelt's motives: "Last year, when his party was split, his personal prestige at low ebb ... I should imagine that he may have considered seriously making a fight for a third nomination. . . . But now the situation has been changed, not by the war but by Mr. Roosevelt's reaction to the war. . . . The war is ... a subject on which, because his mind is clear, his convictions are resolute. The war therefore has brought out the best that was in him, and he has become what he might always have been...
...finances was not to be revealed until the Finance Minister presents the military budget, which will be drawn up every three months. Meanwhile, to defray the increased costs, both civilian and military, taxes went up. The so-called extraordinary income tax was raised from 2% to 5% on low incomes and to 15% on incomes above $155 monthly earned by male noncombatants of military age. Other new taxes included the upping of postal rates, increased levies on telephones and radios, cigars and cigarets...
Number three is another sandbagger, He was a hot prospect for center this fall until he brooks his arm, and was outclassed by his competitors while it was healing. His name is Low Harder, and the last few days he has been going out for practice although he hasn't prayer of getting into the game tomorrow...
...pessimism of youth. Such a proposal can be interpreted in two ways. If additional training is to be supplementary to the present amount of cultural education, it will serve a useful purpose. Although ideally unlimited opportunities for advanced education are desirable, practically, because of the continued prevalence of low incomes, this is impossible for a large percentage of the population. Thus any increase in the sum total of all education, provided the present standards of culture are kept as a minimum, is extremely valuable...
...Possum" is a nickname given to Anglophile T. S. Eliot† by Anglophobe Ezra Pound. Source of the nickname was an old compact by which Poet Pound undertook to attack British literary lethargy from afar (i.e., Rapallo, Italy), while Poet Eliot played possum in the enemy camp. Lying low in a high place, Eliot never included in his published works various light verses about cats which his friends and a few children received from time to time, typewritten and unsigned. The present collection marks, among other things, Eliot's first public acknowledgment of possumhood...