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...Africa, in Russia, and among the conquered peoples, and we know that we must do our part on all the fronts. We are confident that in the end, whenever that may be, we and our allies will emerge on top. Then we will be the ones to face the manifold problems of establishing a just and honest and stable peace. We believe ourselves capable of accomplishing what our fathers failed to achieve. We have starry-eyed and idealistic hopes of a peace not just in our sons time, but for all time...
...fact remained that LaGuardia faced a real fight for reelection. As a result of his manifold defense activities and many frank utterances, he is firmly labeled interventionist-a fact which of itself is not calculated to win him many votes among the older generation of New York's 1,070,355 Italians, 600,084 Germans, and particularly its 535,034 Irish...
...reason for their belief they had the manifold evidence of how far short was the production of many needed arms, of the whole civilian defense machinery running without any responsible head, of uncertain policies, of fresh confusions piled on stale confusions...
Alben Barkley's dull roar died away. In its stead, for a long moment during the Democratic Convention last week, there was only the manifold murmur of the crowd in the Chicago Stadium. The sweating, shuffling, staring thousands had just heard Franklin Roosevelt's inconclusive message that he could be had (see p. 9), wondered what would happen next. Suddenly the loudspeakers clustered above the delegates came alive. A voice thundered...
...than 56 men into the ministry. Then Boston's Trinity Church, the granite Romanesque pile where Phillips Brooks had risen to fame, called him. He accepted, cut the job's $15,000 salary to $10,000 because he was a bachelor. He plunged into Trinity's manifold activities -40 parish organizations, with a budget of $130,000 a year, called on as many of his 2,000 parishioners as he could manage...